My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.

There are so many little dyings every day, it doesn't matter which one of them is death.

If death could be seen as a beautiful clear lake, refreshing and buoyant, then when a consciousness moves towards its exit from a body there would be that delightful plunge and it would simply swim away.

God made no Death: neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the living.

Only those who are prepared to die are really prepared to live.

We don't know yet about life, how can we know about death?

Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Fear not death, for it is your destiny.

The presence of death annihilates all superstitions. We are the children of death, and it is death that rescues us from the deceptions of life. In the midst of life he calls us and summons us to him.

The sun exactly at noon is exactly beginning to go down. And a creature exactly when he is born is exactly beginning to die.