I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.

Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it!

I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete.

The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.

Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.