When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from but our severity.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

It is easy to go down into Hell night and day the gates of dark Death stand wide but to climb back again to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub the task.

In every parting there is an image of death.

Even though people may be well known they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth marriage and death.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid the further the date of redemption is postponed.

If we have been pleased with life we should not be displeased with death since it comes from the hand of the same master.

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.

On neither the sun nor death can a man look fixedly.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death every reunion a hint of the resurrection.