A good death does honor to a whole life.

I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love

For a perfect contempt of the world, a fervent desire to excel in virtue, the love of discipline, the painfulness of repentance, readiness to obey, denial of self, submission to any adversity for love of Christ; these are the things which shall give great confidence of a happy death. Whilst thou art in health thou hast many opportunities of good works; but when thou art in sickness I know not how much thou wilt be able to do.

Death with honor is better than a life of degradation.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

For life, good youth, hath never an ill Which hope cannot scatter, and faith cannot kill; And stubborn realities never shall bind The free-spreading wings of a cheerful mind.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Death is not completely tragic, perhaps it will be the completion of a redemption, or the beginning of a rebirth.

Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life but that great consciousness of life.

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

Brethren! God gives the ummah that is skilled in the practice of death and that knows how to die a noble death, an exalted life in this world and eternal felicity in the next. What is the fantasy that has reduced us to loving this world and hating death? If you gird yourselves for a lofty deed and yearn for death, life shall be given to you. Know then that death is inevitable, and that it can only happen once. If you suffer it in the way of God, it will be your profit in this world, and your reward in the next.

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

Hope is the consequence of action more than its cause.