Dear, beauteous death, the jewel of the just! Shining nowhere but in the dark; What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust, Could man outlook that mark!
But well-a-day, the gardener careless grew, The maids and fairies both were kept away, And in a drought the caterpillars threw Themselves upon the bud and every spray. God shield the stock! if Heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.
I've accomplished enough in life so that I do not fear death.
Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.
Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.
I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral
Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.
I think you die the way you live.
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset.
The mind is continuously running around. It never sits, it can't sit. Sitting seems to be death to it, and in a way it is.
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
Oh well, no matter what happens, there's always death.
That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final.
Death is not goodbye.
Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
Death is the last limit of all things.
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.
Life is the offspring of death.