Death is the gate of life.--St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.--Charles C. Colton

Death is the opening of a more subtle life. In the flower, it sets free the perfume; in the chrysalis, the butterfly; in man, the soul.--Juliette Adam

Death teaches us to live; it gives us a boundary to map our living within. Death's hammer breaks through the mirror separating us from light.--David Meltzer

I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.--Ella Wheeler Wilcox ("The Journey")

I'm not going to die,
I'm going home
Like a shooting star.--Sojourner Truth

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.--Stephen Vincent Benet

This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.--Tyron Edwards

Thinking and talking about death need not be morbid; they may be quite the opposite. Ignorance and fear of death overshadow life, while knowing and accepting death erases this shadow.--Lily Pincus 

To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die.--Thomas Campbell