I think it makes small difference to the dead if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All this is an empty glorification left for those who live.

If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide—because he kills not merely a man but a near relative—without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself. 

If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.

You are dust, and to dust you shall return.

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

Under the wide and starry sky, / Dig the grave and let me lie.

It is noble to die before doing anything that deserves death.

Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?

I order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song or music.

I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.

Death keeps no calendar.