A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.

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I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. ― J.R.R. Tolkien

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Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. — Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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Grief is a journey that leaves us changed forever. So don't run from it or hide from it. Embrace it and let it change you. – Unknown

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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! — Patrick Henry

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You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved. ― Chuck Palahniuk

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Every tiny part of us cries out against the idea of dying, and hopes to live forever.

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Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death.

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ― Henry David Thoreau

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