"Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where." ― John Dryden Topic(s): Death More From John Dryden "Self-defence is Nature’s eldest law." "Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son." "Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be." More In Death "Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature."― Marcus Aurelius "Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?"― Plato "I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death."― Francis Bacon