"To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?" ~Socrates

"All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity." ~Shakespeare

"Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying." ~Martin Luther

Those who have lived a good life do not fear death, but meet it calmly, and even long for it in the face of great suffering. But those who do not have a peaceful conscience, dread death as though life means nothing but physical torment. The challenge is to live our life so that we will be prepared for death when it comes.

"The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows." ~Socrates

"When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men." ~Longfellow

"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live." ~Marting Luther King Jr.

"Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good." ~Plato

"For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest." ~Lord Byron

"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living." ~Cicero

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” ~Norman Cousins

“Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.” ~Robert Cody

“I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.” ~Will Shriner

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ~Mahatma Gandhi

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ~Craig Volk

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." ~Isaac Asimov

"Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up." ~Wilson Mizner

"Death quotes can be used to mark the end of any thing. It can also be used to signify that life moves in a circle and it gets back to where it had started from. They are also used to mark the successful termination of any process or project to at the demise of any individual to speak a few words about that person. The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them." ~Lois McMaster Bujold