No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you.
It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.
Get your cow hide over here so I can cut it down to size!
Everything seemed to freeze around me. I could hear her voice, warm and soft like velvet, but as dangerous as a jagged knife. "So, mortal. You challenge me? Regardless of what you-", I felt something invisible caress my belly, "Have to lose? You would risk it's life just to win your precious little castle back?"
You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself most plainly when you have need of him. How else could you produce that particular Patronus? Prongs rode again last night.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. Time to die.
Never knock on Death's door. Ring the doorbell and run. Death hates that.
Everybody dies, but not everybody lives.
He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.
We work to stop thinking about sex and worrying about death.