“It was like a dream of hell, when a man finds his own name staring at him from the Devil's ledger; like a dream of death, when he who comes as mourner finds himself in the coffin, or as witness to a hanging, the condemned upon the scaffold.”— Thomas Wolfe, amazon.com
“Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever!”— Harriet Beecher Stowe, amazon.com
“One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.”— Robert Jordan, amazon.com
“The crowd slowly dispersed in soft, whispering groups, voices muted by the fascination of death that all men carry with them in small pockets deep inside them.”— Rod Serling, goodreads.com
“Let the dust take me when the adventure's done and I shall make the dust glitter for all eternity with my marvelous fury.”— Gore Vidal, amazon.com
“In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death.”— Gore Vidal, amazon.com
“Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though it was plain enough that the specific combination which was he would never exist again.”— Gore Vidal, amazon.com
“Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with the same equanimity as life. No longer will children's minds be twisted by evil gods whose fantastic origin is in those barbaric tribes who feared death and lightning, who feared l…”— Gore Vidal, amazon.com
“Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they’re used.”— Max Brooks, amazon.com
“Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“When you are dead you don't know you're dead. All of the pain is felt by others. The same thing happens when you are stupid.”— blazin420ez, reddit.com
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com
“Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs the eternal sleep, But in the stillness far withdrawn Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, amazon.com
“Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie: Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he long'd to be; Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, amazon.com
“I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames. The light of that conflagration will fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds. My spirit wil…”— Mary Shelley, amazon.com