“The mode of death is sadder than death itself.”

“How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.”

Will Durant (1885–1981) American historian, philosopher and writer

“More cruel than death itself, to die at that particular conjuncture!”
O morte ipsa mortis tempus indignius!

Pliny the Younger (61–113) Roman writer

“Either no feeling remains to the soul after death, or death itself matters not at all.”
Aut nihil est sensus animis a morte relictum aut mors ipsa nihil.

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus book Pharsalia

“People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. ”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

“The human heart beats itself to death.”

Ron English (1959) American artist

“My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. I wanted my death to be something the people could relate to, a basis for further mobilization of the community.”

Huey P. Newton book Revolutionary Suicide

“People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

“America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.”

John Piper (1946) American writer

“Death is regarded as an evil and our minds are only meditating upon life itself, and never upon the destroyer of pleasure, which is death.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author