Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament

"Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament." - Paul De Man
"Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live." - Henry Van Dyke
"I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for thegreat ordeal of meeting me is another matter." - Winston Churchill
"The only completely consistent people are the dead." - Aldous Huxley
"It is nothing to die; it is frightful not to live." - Victor Hugo
"Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature." - Marcus Aurellus Antonius