Death

To give oneself up to impure loves

is to plight one’s troth to death.
-Eliphas Levi

Perversity, by modifying the organism whose equilibrium it destroys,
creates at the same time a fatality of needs
which urges it to its own destruction, to its death.
-Eliphas Levi

There is no death other than forgetfulness.

The forgetfulness of our Real Nature is living death.

-Shankara

Grandfather dies, father dies, son dies -
this is good fortune.
Know your deepest being
and live securely in a world of insecurity.
-Zen Saying

While you are living, know you are dying.

Awareness of mortality focuses the mind.
-Zen Saying

You don't understand death,

you learn to acquiesce in death.

-Joseph Campbell

I don't believe in death; if every hour I die,

I then shall have each time discovered a better life.

-Angelus Silesius

No creature can attain a higher grade of nature

without ceasing to exist.

-Ananda Coomaraswamy

Be like a person who has died the great death:

after your breath is cut off,

then you come back to life.

Only then do you realize that it is as open as empty space.

Only them do you reach the point 

where your feet are walking on the ground of reality.

-Yuanwu

When a person is spiritually ready,
he can give up physical life in whatever way he chooses.
In my tradition, there are five ways to go, which are called "untying."
There is water untying, fire untying, weapon or metal untying,
earth untying and wood untying.

-Hua-Ching Ni