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| "Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy." | Louisa May Alcott | Little Women |  |
| . . . as he had often forcibly argued, all experience tended to show that a man must die; and whether he died of a miserable old age in his own country, or prematurely of damp in the bottom of a foreign mine, was surely of little consequence, provided that by a change in his mode of life he benefited the British Empire. | John Galsworthy | The Forsyte Saga | |
| " . . . it hath been often said that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible." | Henry Fielding | Amelia | |
| "The end crowns all; and that old common arbitrator, Time, will one day end it." | William Shakespeare | Troilus and Cressida | |
| It was the same dark place as ever: every room dismal and silent as it was wont to be, and every ghostly article of furniture in its customary place. The iron heart of the grim old clock, undistributed by all the noise without, still beat heavily within its dusty case; the tottering presses slunk from the sight, as usual, in their melancholy corners; the echoes of footsteps returned the same dreary sound; the long-legged spider paused in his nimble run, and, scared by the sight of men in that his dull domain, hung motionless on the wall, counterfeiting death until they should have passed him by. | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | |
| . . . that shabby corner of God's allotment where He lets the nettles grow, and where all unbaptized infants, notorious drunkards, suicides, and others of the conjecturally damned are laid. | Thomas Hardy | Tess of the D'Urbervilles | |
| "I think that I may go so far as to say, Watson, that I have not lived wholly in vain," he remarked. "If my record were closed to-night I could still survey it with equanimity. The air of London is the sweeter for my presence." | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Final Problem | |
And come he slow, or come he fast,
It is but Death who comes at last. | Sir Walter Scott | Marmion | |
| I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. | Willa Cather | My Antonia | |
| "Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once." | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | |
| "If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride and hug it in mine arms." | William Shakespeare | Measure for Measure | |
| "Love has no age, no limit; and no death." | John Galsworthy | The Forsyte Saga | |
| "And I say, if she'd ha' died, Ethan might ha' lived; and the way they are now, I don't see's there's much difference between the Fromes up at the farm and the Fromes down in the graveyard; 'cept that down there they're all quiet, and the women have got to hold their tongues." | Edith Wharton | Ethan Frome | |
| "To die will be an awfully big adventure." | James M. Barrie | Peter Pan | |
| Mr. Melas, however, still lived, and in less than an hour, with the aid of ammonia and brandy I had the satisfaction of seeing him open his eyes, and of knowing that my hand had drawn him back from that dark valley in which all paths meet. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Greek Interpreter | |
| "Death doesn't change us more than life." | Charles Dickens | The Old Curiosity Shop | |
| Sir John had his share–perhaps rather a large share–of the more harmless and amiable of the weaknesses incidental to humanity. Among these, I may mention as applicable to the matter in hand, an invincible reluctance–so long as he enjoyed his usual good health–to face the responsibility of making his will. | Wilkie Collins | The Moonstone | |
"Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust." | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | |
"Full fathom five thy father lies:
Of his bones are coral made:
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange." | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | |
"Cry woe, destruction, ruin, and decay-
The worst is death, and death will have his day." | William Shakespeare | King Richard II | |
