death
“Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.”
“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”
“To philosophize is to learn to die.”
“That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.”
“The business of the Christian is nothing else than to be ever preparing for death.”
“We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream: it may be so the moment after death.”
“You only live twice: Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.”
“Death destroys a man: the idea of death saves him.”
“So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.”
“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
“Death is nothing to us.”
“It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.”
“This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper.”
“One short sleep past, we wake eternally; And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.”
“Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;”
“For whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.”
“Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.”
“My life closed twice before its close—”
“Because I could not stop for Death—He kindly stopped for me—”