A human life is a story told by God.
- Hans Christian Andersen

Each soul must meet the morning sun,
The new sweet earth,
and the Great Silence.
- Ohiyesha (Charles Alexander Eastman)

Death smiles at us all.
All a man can do is smile back.
- Marcus Aurelius

When a swan feels that the time has come for them to die
They sing more loudly and more sweetly
Than they have sung in all their lives before,
For joy that they are going away into the presence of God
Whose servants they are.
-Socrates



For what is it to die but to stand naked
In the wind and to melt into the sun?
And what is it to cease breathing,
But to free the breath from its restless tides,
That it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?
- Khalil Gibran, the Prophet

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live you life so that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.
-Native American Proverb

I am ready to meet my maker.
Whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal
Of meeting me is another matter.
- Winston Churchill

For certain is death for the born
And certain is birth for the dead;
Therefore over the inevitable
Thou shouldst not grieve.
- Bhagavad Gita

I've told my children that when I die,
To release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated.
For me, death is a graduation.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
-Socrates

Death is not the opposite of life.  Life has no opposite. 
The opposite of death is birth. 
Life is eternal.
-Eckhart Tolle