So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number of widowers.

Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!

Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.

God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees; 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.

The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.

A death is the most terrible of facts.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.

It costs me never a stab nor squirm To tread by chance upon a worm. "Aha, my little dear," I say, "Your clan will pay me back one day."

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.