Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
To be content with death may be better than to desire it.
I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures.
With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.
(Death is) A leap into the dark.
Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.