We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more but the number is roughly constant and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.

Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary the most natural matter on this planet is death.

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural death is the obscene mystery the ultimate affront the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

It is impossible that anything so natural so necessary and so universal as death should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

For a man who has done his natural duty death is as natural as sleep.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being for whom death is not only necessary but frequently even desirable.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness of witherings of tarnishings.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales so is the other.

Dating co-stars is natural. When you're working with someone it's habit.