I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
~ Francis Bacon

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
~ Francis Bacon

It is natural to die as to be born.
~ Francis Bacon

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.
~ Enid Bagnold

See in what peace a Christian can die.
~ Joseph Addison

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
~ Joseph Addison

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
~ Woody Allen

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
~ Woody Allen

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.
~ Woody Allen

There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.
~ Guy Almes

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
~ Steward Alsop

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
~ Hannah Arendt

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
~ Aristophanes

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.
~ Ernest Moritz Arndt

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
~ Matthew Arnold

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.
~ Matthew Arnold

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
~ W. H. Auden

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.
~ Red Auerbach

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
~ Marcus Aurelius

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
~ Marcus Aurelius