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I doubt that we have any right to pity the dead for their own sakes.

—Lord Byron, 1817

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.

—Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1714

The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and, secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.

—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1879

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

—Hermann Hesse, 1950

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

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 43 BC

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest.

—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BC

Death keeps no calendar.

—George Herbert, 1640

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

—Oliver Cromwell, 1658

Whoever has died is freed from sin.

—St. Paul, c. 50

Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?

—Tertullian, c. 215

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

—Thomas Hobbes, 1679

I think it makes small difference to the dead if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All this is an empty glorification left for those who live.

—Euripides, 415 BC

I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.

—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1928