It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.Simone de Beauvoir
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.Helen Keller
Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.David Hume
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.Francis Bacon