When we lose one we love, 
our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. - Maurice Maeterlinck

Death is God's last and greatest gift to the living - Margaret Eadie

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. - Seneca

Is death the last sleep? No - it is the last and final awakening. - Sir Walter Scott 

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. - John Taylor

For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind? 
And when the Earth has claimed our limbs, Then we shall truly dance. - Kahlil Gibran

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.- Lucan

Death--- the last sleep? No the final awakening. - Walter Scott

I look at life as a gift of God. Now that he wants it back I have no right to complain. - Joyce Cary

Unto God, the Lord belong the issues of death. - Psalm 68:20

Lord, now let thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word. - Luke 2:29 

For death begins with life's first breath, And life begins at touch of death - John Oxenham

Death-the last voyage, the longest and the best - Thomas Wolfe

There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. 
After that everything is possible. 
I cannot force you to believe in God.
Believing in God amounts to coming to terms with death. 
When you have accepted death, the problem of God will be solved--and not the reverse. - Albert Camus

Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean. - David Searls 

And life is perfected by death. - Elizabeth Barret Browning

If God hath made this world so fair, Where sin and death abound, 
How beautiful beyond compare Will paradise be found! - James Montgomery.

There is no death! What seems so is transition; 
This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, 
Whose portal we call Death. - Henry W. Longfellow

Death is not extinguishing the light. 
It is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. -  Rabindranath Tagore 

In one of the stars, I shall be living. In one of them, I shall be laughing.
And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing when you look at the sky at night.
- The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint - Exupéry

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, 
more potent, nay, more present than the living man. - Antoine de Saint - Exupéry

Life is eternal and love is immortal; And death is only a horizon,
And a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight. - Rossiter W. Raymond

Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth - that no evil can happen to a good man,
either in life or after death. - Socrates

I have died many a death in love, and yet, had I not loved I would never have lived at all. - David Lasater

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. - Willa Cather

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies. - William Penn 

Good men must die, but death can not kill their names - Proverbs

It is good to die before one has done anything deserving death. - Anaxandrides

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

I am ready to meet my Maker. 
Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Winston Churchill

Do not seek death. Death will find you. 
But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. - Dag Hammarskjöld

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. 
We must not demean life by standing in awe of death. - David Sarnoff

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

God's finger touched him, and he slept. - Lord Alfred Tennyson

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't. - Richard Bach

Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing. - William Shakespeare / Macbeth

Lord, now lettest now thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word. - Luke 2:29

For death begins with life's first breath And life begins at touch of death  - John Oxenham

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death - Publilius Syrus

Death-the last voyage, the longest and the best -  Thomas Wolfe

Because I could not stop for death He kindly stopped for me 
The carriage held but just ourselves And immortaility - Emily Dickinson

Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, 
which is man's charter of  nobility. - George Santayana

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. 
Live you life in a manner so that when you die the world cries and you rejoice. - Native American Proverb

Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean. - David Searls

Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death. - Elizabeth Barret Browning

Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there. - Samuel Taylor

Death cometh soon or late; 
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds 
for the ashes of his fathers and the temples of his gods? - Thomas B. Macaulay

In death a hero, as in life a friend! -  Alexander Popey

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. - Vladimir Nobokov

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men. - Herodotus

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than anything I have ever done; 
it is a far, far, better rest that I go to, than I have ever known. - Charles Dickens

I am going to seek the great Perhaps - Francois Rabelais