“A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.”

“But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man’s best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free.”

“I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.”

“Man's death by sins is more than his death by fate and his life by charity is more than his life by age.”

“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.”

“In the face of warfare and inevitable death, there is no wisdom but in ataraxia, “to look on all things with a mind at peace"."”

“A warrior thinks of his death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.”

“Man alone, it seems, lives all his life in the knowledge of death. And yet there is more to life than merely waiting for death. For life to have meaning, there must be a purpose. A man must pass something on — otherwise he is useless.”

“We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.”

“Sex and death. Two things that come but once in my lifetime, but at least after death you're not nauseous.”