Quotes by Coffer of Skulls

Those who have lived a good life do not fear death, but meet it calmly, and even long for it in the face of great suffering. But those who do not have a peaceful conscience, dread death as though life means nothing but physical torment. The challenge is to live our life so that we will be prepared for death when it comes.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Our dead are never dead to us.

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

When death overtakes us; all that we have is left to others; all that we are we take with us.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Death is a shadow that always follows the body.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

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.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations, except in the Valleys.

What shall he fear that does not fear death.