“A good death does honor to a whole life.”

“No evil is honorable; but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.”

Zeno of Citium (-334–-263 BC) ancient Greek philosopher

“The whole Mount still kept the grand style; it expressed the unity of Church and State, God and Man, Peace and War, Life and Death, Good and Bad; it solved the whole problem of the universe.”

Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist

“And what is death? It is the change in the living process of a particular body. Integration ends and disintegration sets in. (…) In death only the body dies. Life does not, consciousness does not, reality does not. And the life is never so alive as after death.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897–1981) Indian guru

“T is not the whole of life to live,
Nor all of death to die.”

James Montgomery (1771–1854) British editor, hymn writer, and poet

“Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.”
Desperatio magnum ad honeste moriendum incitamentum.

Quintus Curtius Rufus Roman historian

“If the soul does not exist, then stop believing in life and death as well.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.”

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist

“He will not do death the honor of taking it into account.”

Elias Canetti (1905–1994) Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer

“I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning… as does death.”

Dean Koontz (1945) American author