Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!

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

Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb.

Death offers mankind a full view of truth.

How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.