He should carry the fear of death forever in his heart - for that ends all glory, and he should use it as a spur to ride his life across the barriers. Thomas Wolfe letter to his mother Love makes up poets and the approach of death should make us philosophers. Whom the gods favor die young. Plautus The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress.
Death is new life to both.
We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve. The Renaissance It is not death that alarms me, but dying. Michel de Montaigne 'Tis a vile thing to die, my gracious lord, When men are unprepared and look not for it. The Need to be Loved Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.