The dead are often just as living to us as the living are, only we cannot get them to believe it. They can come to us, but till we die we cannot go to them. To be dead is to be unable to understand that one is alive. 

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

It is noble to die before doing anything that deserves death.

In dealing with the dead, if we treat them as if they were entirely dead, that would show a want of affection and should not be done; or, if we treat them as if they were entirely alive, that would show a want of wisdom and should not be done.

Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.

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.

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

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. 

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

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

Death renders all equal.

The play is the tragedy “Man,” And its hero the conqueror worm.

There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.