As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.