I do not fear death, in view of the fact that I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
I kneel in the nights before tigers that will not let me be. What you were will not happen again. The tigers have found me and I do not care.
To the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure.
The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of the dead.
I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, "Verify your quotations."
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
Death is very often referred to as a good career move.
We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that death will tremble to take us.
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.