Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

I imagined it was more difficult to die. 

To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.

I don’t believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Anyone who’s never watched somebody die is suffering from a pretty bad case of virginity.

What is death? A scary mask. Take it off—see, it doesn’t bite.

Death keeps no calendar.

Epitaph, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

I looked and there was a pale green horse! Its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed with him.

If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide—because he kills not merely a man but a near relative—without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself. 

It is not my design to drink or sleep; my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.

The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.

There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.