Death is more universal than life; everyone dies, but not everyone lives
-- A. Sachs
We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our
consciousness was forced to deem it necessary
--Antonin Artaud
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
--Bertolt Brecht
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death
has come, we are not. --Epicurus
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to
be serious when people laugh --George Bernard Shaw
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself. --Publilius
Syrus