no one dies happy, you can only die well
It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.
Death cannot put the brakes on a good dream.
The one true freedom in life is to come to terms with death, and as early as possible, for death is an event that embraces all our lives. And the only way to have a good death is to lead a good life. The more we do God's will, the less unfinished business we leave behind when we die.
Of death, my father has always said that the best conditions are the ones in which you have plenty of time to prepare - to say what you need to say; to arrange your estate - and the ones in which you get to choose, or at least have some knowledge of, how and when it might happen. One can't elude death, but one can have a good death.
It was certainly a good death scene. I'm endlessly perishing in roles but it's a wonderful thing to be asked to do.
He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and that after death he may hope to receive the greatest good in the other world.
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
A good death does honour to a whole life.
The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
When the good man yields his breath (For the good man never dies).
No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.
O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave, The wise expect, the sorrowful invite, And all the good embrace, who know the grave A short dark passage to eternal light.
