Death of Hector in the Iliad: 'Tis true I perish, yet I perish great: Yet in a mighty deed I shall expire, Let future ages hear it, and...

"Nor am I ashamed to confess that I have long known, from prophecy, that I should fall by the sword. And therefore do I venerate the...

the death masks of one’s ancestors, with a list of their achievements, were deliberately placed in the most conspicuous part of the house...

Death is not the monarch of the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject, and, like the foolish King...

As he looked out over the whole Hellespont, whose water was completely hidden by all his ships, and at all the shores and the plains of...

For mortals are never permitted to escape destiny, but its great net I spread all around them. Apollonius. Apollonius Rhodius,...

Yet I, your comforter, have felt my grief assuaged not so much by the books to which I have always been devoted as by the passing of...

Homer “As leaves on trees, such is the life of man.” Diogenes. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers Books 6-10. Loeb...

Hell according to the philosopher Pythagoras: “Hermes is the steward of souls, and for that reason is called Hermes the Escorter, Hermes...

Churchill referred to his bluer episodes with an expression that Colville told the distinguished Churchill biographer Martin Gilbert he...

Antony and Cleopatra knew they were soon to die and this is how they spent their final days: All this, however, seemed not to disturb...

After that, calling in his friends and asking whether it seemed to them that he had played the comedy of life fitly, he added the tag:...

Pliny the Younger, The lingering disorder of a friend of mine gave me occasion lately to reflect that we are never so good as when...

But to disregard death is a lesson which must be studied from our youth up; for unless that is learnt, no one can have a quiet mind. For...

the death of young men seems to me like putting out a great fire with a deluge of water; but old men die like a fire going out because it...

Churchill on the advent of nuclear weapons:

At the funeral of Truett:

The Third Reich which was born on January 30, 1933, Hitler boasted, would endure for a thousand years, and in Nazi parlance it was often referred to as the “Thousand-Year Reich.” It lasted twelve years and four months, but in that flicker of time, as history goes, it caused an eruption on this earth more violent and shattering than any previously experienced, raising the German people to heights of power they had not known in more than a millennium, making them at one time th

For example, among the Derbices, men over seventy were killed and eaten by their kinsfolk, and old women were strangled and buried; men so unfortunate as to die before seventy were merely inhumed. Among the Caspians, who gave their name to the sea formerly called Hyrcanian, those over seventy were starved. Corpses were exposed in a desert place and observed. If carried from the bier by vultures, the dead were considered most fortunate, less so if taken by wild beasts or dogs;

So also Diogenes says somewhere: “The one sure way to secure freedom is to die cheerfully”…

"What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you? For no matter what you do you will have to be overtaken by death. If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that."

Epictetus, "But we act very much as though we were on a voyage. What is possible for me? To select the helmsman, the sailors, the day, the moment. Then a storm comes down upon us. Very well, what further concern have I? For my part has been fulfilled. The business belongs to someone else, that is, the helmsman. But, more than that, the ship goes down. What, then, have I to do? What I can; that is the only thing I do; I drown without fear, neither shrieking nor crying out agai