Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.