Death borders upon our birth and our cradle stands in the grave.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

The timing of death like the ending of a story gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

It is possible to provide security against other ills but as far as death is concerned we men live in a city without walls.

Since the day of my birth my death began its walk. It is walking toward me without hurrying.

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.