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

A death is the most terrible of facts.

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.

The last act is tragic, however happy all the rest of the play is; at the last a little earth is thrown upon our head, and that is the end for ever.

Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize those occasions when we have been useful in the world.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present, than the living man.