Call no man happy till he is dead.

- Aeschylus

Though this may be play to you, Tis death to us.

- Aesop

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep.

- Lord Byron

Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.

- Charles Frohman

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

- Thomas Hobbes

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last final awakening.

- Walter Scott

There is no death! the stars go down To rise upon some other shore, And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, They shine for ever more.

- John L. McCreery

To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.

- William Shakespeare

Death lies on her, like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

- William Shakespeare

First our pleasures die - and then Our hopes, and then our fears - and when These are dead, the debt is due, Dust claims dust - and we die too.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

- Walt Whitman