„Death waits for me, I know it, aroundone corner or another.This doesn’t amuse me.Neither does it frighten me.“

— Mary Oliver

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„Death is an old friend; I know him well. I lived with him, ate with him, slept with him; to meet him again does not frighten me—death is as necessary as birth, as happy in its own way.“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.“
— Margaret Atwood
„Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron.“
— Patricia Briggs
„Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.“
— Walt Whitman
„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
„And when I'm lying in my bed, I think about life and I think about death.And neither one particularly appeals to me.“
— Morrissey
„You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,And filter and fibre your blood.Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,Missing me one place search another,I stop somewhere waiting for you.“
— Walt Whitman
„Buddhism calls anger "corruption of the mind," Manicheism "root of the tree of death." I know this, but what good does it do me to know?“
— Emil M. Cioran
„That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything's dark and you can't see, and the people around you think of you as more dead than alive.“
— Haruki Murakami