There is a ripeness of time for death.

-Anonymous

The retired list of life is death.
-William George Jordan

Death cancels all engagements.
-Max Beerbohm

Death is just the last scene of the last act.
-Joyce Carol Oates

Death is the ultimate disappearing act.
-Kate Green

Of all escape mechanisms,
death is the most efficient.
-Henry Louis Mencken

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

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

Please pardon my levity,
I don't see how to take death seriously.
It seems absurd.
-Robert Anton Wilson

That which is so universal as death
must be a benefit.
-Friedrich von Schiller

Death never takes the wise man by surprise,
he is always ready to go.
-Jean de La Fontaine

To the well-organized mind,
death is but the next great adventure.
-J. K. Rowling

Most people are not ready for death,
theirs or anybody else's.
-Charles Bukowski

Death is a friend of ours,
and he that is not ready to entertain him,
is not at home.
-Francis Bacon

Don't be afraid of death
as much as an inadequate life.
-Bertolt Brecht

The best preparation for death
is a well-spent life.

-Mieczyslaw Demetriusz Sudowski, "Mouni Sadhu"

When we are ready to die at any moment
we are also ready to live at any moment.
-Henri Nouwen

If you're not ready to die,
then how can you live?
-Charles de Lint

I am not afraid of death.
It's the stake one puts up one puts up
in order to play the game of life.
-Jean Giraudoux

He decided to live forever
or to die in the attempt.
-Joseph Heller

People living deeply
have no fear of death.
-Anais Nin

Death is only the pure, beautiful conclusion
of a great passion.
-D. H. Lawrence

Live before you die,
so that death is also a lively celebration.
-B. K. S. Iyengar

Until death
it is all life.
-Miquel de Cervantes

I don't want to die as long as I can work;
the minute I cannot, I want to go.
-Susan B. Anthony

When death comes,
let it find me at my work.
-Ovid

I want death to find me
planting my cabbages.
-Michel de Montaigne

Dying cricket,
his song so full of life.
-Basho

To be weary of one's own individuality -
it that to die?
-Theodore Roethke

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

A man does not die of love, his liver or even old age;
he dies of being a man.
-Miguel de Unamuno

To die with honor
when one can no longer live with honor.
-Giacomo Puccini

When a plant can't live according to its nature, it dies;
and so a man.
-Henry David Thoreau

We go on living and are who we are
Until death comes to assist who we aren't.
-Fernando Pessoa

When we
have played
with the toy life
death takes it
back without
conditions
whatever the conditions
-R. A. Ammons

Yet each of us earns his own death,
his own death,
which belongs to no one else
and this game of life.
-George Serefis

Death always has a reason.

-Haitian Proverb

By premature death we mean
the passing away from this sphere
before we have fulfilled the purpose for which we came.
-Christian Larson

A person never dies before his time.

-Haitian Proverb

Man dies when he wants,
as he wants,
of what he chooses.
-Jean Anouilh

There are always two deaths,
the real one and the one people know about.
-Jean Rhys

Death has a thousand doors to let out life:
I shall find one.
-Philip Massinger

Death is only an old door

Set in a garden wall.

-Nancy Byrd Turner

Nothing resembles a person as much
as the way he dies.
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez

To die alone, on a rock under sun at the brink of the unknown,
like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.
-Edward Abbey

He could not die when the trees were green,
For he loved the time too well.
-John Clare

Loveliest of what I leave behind is the sunlight,

And loveliest after that, the shining stars and the moon's face,

but also cucumbers that are ripe, and pears, and apples.

-Praxilla of Sicyon

Life is an end in itself
and the only question as to whether it is worth living
is whether you have had enough of it.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Why not like a well-filled guest
leave the feast of life?
-Lucretius

Do not seek death.
Death will find you.
But seek the road
that makes death a fulfillment.
-Dag Hammarskjold

Even the longest life
is a brief run.
-Geneen Roth

On the day he dies,
every man feels he has lived only a single day.
-Zohar

What is death to me?
I have sown the seeds others will reap.
-Jose Rizal

When a tiger dies, it leaves its skin behind.
When a man dies, he leaves his name behind.
-Chinese Proverb

Sometimes only one person is missing
and the whole world seems depopulated.
-Alphonse de Lamartine

A man's dying is more of the survivors' affair
than his own.
-Thomas Mann

The more your identity was wrapped up in the deceased
the more difficult the loss.
-Meghan O'Rourke

Death is only interesting
in relation to the search for what cannot die.
-Rodney Collin

All interest in disease and death
is only another expression of interest in life.
-Thomas Mann

Most people are not ready for death,
theirs or anybody else's.
-Charles Bukowski

Let us beware of saying
that life is the opposite of death.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is a state of becoming,
and death is merely a part of the process.
-Jane Roberts, "Seth"

Death has no reality
except as a process of life.
-Aurobindo Ghose

Must not all things at last
be swallowed up in death?
-Plato

Death is always swallowed by life.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life as a whole
never takes death seriously.
-Rabindranath Tagore

 Laugh at death and die of laughter. 

-Jacques Prevért

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It is certain that the world
dies a certain death for each one of us,
yet the world still exists.
-Etty Hillesum

Death is the final stage of growth in this life.
-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Death is not a denial of Life
but a process of Life.
-Aurobindo Ghose

Nothing ever really dies, it only transforms.
-Vicki Noble

What we call death
is our impression of a change.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

Death is an art you know.
-Alejandro Jodorowsky

Dying is an art,
like everything else.
-Sylvia Plath

I am able to follow my own death step by step.
Now I move softly toward the end.
-Pope John Paul XIII

Death is just infinity closing in.
-Jorge Luis Borges

In the shadows of death,
I threw the anchor into the sky.
-Maurice Maeterlinck

When you die you will simply be here in one moment
and there the next.
-Helen M. Luke

Death is the separation of spirit from the body -
there is insufficient material for it to work with or function through,
its piece of real estate is of poor quality,
its mineral and chemical formula is imperfect,
so much it cannot support life.
Hence it leaves.
-Inez Perry

Death is a change that comes
through the inability of the body to hold what we call the soul.
The body has a certain amount of magnetism,
which is the sign of its perfect running order.
When, owing to illness, the body, either suddenly or gradually,
loses that magnetism by the power of which it holds the soul,
it so to speak helplessly loses its grip upon something that is was holding;
and it is this losing of the grip that is know to us as death.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

Death releases us from sense impressions,
from the impulses of our hungers,
the wayward wandering of our thoughts,
and the need to care for the body.
-Marcus Aurelius

That last day does not bring extinction to us,
but a change of worlds.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero

Death is only a shedding of the body,
not a cessation of personal existence.
-Aurobindo Ghose

Life is not destroyed, only changed,
by death.
-Leo Tolstoy

Death is a withdrawal of consciousness.
-Esther Hicks, Abraham-Hicks

Death...
Costumeless Consciousness -
That is he -
-Emily Dickinson

Death is a Dialogue between
The Spirit and the Dust.
"Dissolve" says Death -The Spirit "Sir
I have another Trust" -

Doubt doubts it - Argues from the Ground -
The Spirit turns away
Just laying off for evidence
An overcoat of clay.
-Emily Dickinson

In reality, there is no death
because you are not the body.
Let the body be there or not be there,
your existence is always there; it is eternal.
-Nisargadatta

The soul is life; it never touches death.
Death comes to something which the soul holds, not to itself.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

Death is nothing but the taking off of one garb
and giving it back to the plane from which it was borrowed.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

Dying is the dropping of the flower
that the fruit may swell.
-Henry Ward Beecher

Death is the opening of a more subtle life.
In the flower, it sets free the perfume;
in the chrysalis, the butterfly, in man, the soul.
-Juliette Adam

Death is an unveiling, the removal of a cover,
after which the soul will know many things
in regard to its own life and in regard to the whole world
which had hitherto been hidden.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

Death is not extinguishing the light;
it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.
-Rabindranath Tagore

Man is immortal;
therefore he must die endlessly.
For life is a creative idea;
it can only find itself in changing forms.
-Rabindranath Tagore

Rightly viewed,
death does not mean total destruction or annihilation.
It means a transitional phase
in the long, evolutionary journey of the soul.
It brings to a close a particular chapter of life
and opens another chapter in our evolutionary development.
-Haridas Chaudhuri

Death itself never has the last word:
the moment its work is done,
life takes over again, but in another form.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

Death is so certain in life
that there is no need to go forth in haste to meet it.
-Anonymous