People fear death even more than pain.  It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death.  At the point of death, the pain is over.
    -- Jim Morrison

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko

I diapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
-- Voltaire

Better to die once and for all, than to live in continual terror.
-- Aesop

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
-- General George S. Patton, Jr.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
-- A. Sachs

There is a dignity in dying that doctors should not dare to deny.
-- Anonymous

Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.
-- Henry Miller

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempts to prove otherwise constitutes inacceptable behavoir.
-- Fran Lebowitz

It is better to die on your feet, than to live on your knees.
-- Emelio Zapata

I don't know about you, but I had a nice day. You know, except for the bulk of it where I was nearly tortured to death.
-- Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
-- P. J. O'Rourke

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
-- Isaac Asimov