Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love...

Rainer Maria Rilke

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

Martin Luther King Jr.

He felt that if he could not be alone, and if he could not be left alone, he would die.

D. H. Lawrence

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

Bodhidharma

Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.

Douglas MacArthur

I believe in general death but in the death of Dalí absolutely not.

Salvador Dalí