Fey; in other words

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
A. Sachs

He not busy being born is busy dying.
Bob Dylan

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Isaac Asimov

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
Publilius Syrus

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.
Rodney Yee

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain
To wish for death, and not to compass it.
Sophocles

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Woody Allen

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Woody Allen

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Robert Heinlein

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
Zeno

Every man dies, not every man really lives.
William Wallace (Braveheart)

Death makes life precious.
Terry Varga

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