 | "Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."
- A. Sachs
. |
| "Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny."
- Aeschylus
, Agamemnon. |
| "Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life."
- Bertolt Brecht
, The Mother, 1932. |
| For certain is death for the born
And certain is birth for the dead;
Therefore over the inevitable
Thou shouldst not grieve.
- Bhagavad Gita
, Chapter 2. |
| "He not busy being born is busy dying."
- Bob Dylan
. |
| "Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not."
- Epicurus
, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers. |
| "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
- George Bernard Shaw
. |
| "There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."
- George Santayana
, Soliloquies in England, 1922, "War Shrines". |
| "Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings."
- Horace
, Odes. |
| "Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
- Isaac Asimov
. |