perspective on death Quotes

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help make the big choices in life. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am going to other gods who are wise and good (of this I am as certain as I can be of any such matters), and to men departed who are better than those whom I leave behind. And therefore I do not grieve as I might have done, for I have good hope that there is yet something remaining for the dead.

Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it.

All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

I've come to look upon death the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems to get through it all right, so it couldn't be too difficult for me.

Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say?