„He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.“

— Jean Paul Sartre

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„And will he who is a true lover of wisdom, and is persuaded in like manner that only in the world below can he worthily enjoy her, still repine at death? Will he not depart with joy? Surely he will, my friend, if he be a true philosopher. …And if this be true, he would be very absurd, …if he were to fear death.“
— Socrates
„Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„I cannot conceive of anything after my physical death—perhaps it will end it all. The knowledge that I am now on this earth and a mysterious part of eternity is enough for me. My death will be an easy one, too, for since early youth I have always detached myself from family, friends, and surroundings. And should I live on, I have no fear of the next life. Whatever good I did helped to free me from myself. What a miserable creature man would be if he were good not for the sake of being good, but because religion told him that he would get a reward after this life, and that if he weren't good he'd be punished.“
— Albert Einstein
„It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.“
— Marcus Aurelius
„A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death.“
— Rick Riordan