Kim Holt

“But, sir, isn't death a dreadful thing?" asked Malcolm.

"That depends on whether a man regards it as his fate or as the will of a perfect God. Its obscurity is its dread. But if God be light, then death itself must be full of splendor--a splendor probably too keen for our eyes to receive."

"But there's the dying itself; isn't that fearsome? It's that I would be afraid of."

"I don't see why it should be. It's the lack of a God that makes it dreadful, and you would be greatly to blame for that, Malcolm, if you hadn't found your God by the time you had to die.”
― George MacDonald, The Fisherman's Lady

“What do we say to the Lord of Death?'

'Not today.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“There were no fear of death in children’s eyes because they had seen hanging, stoning to death and chopping heads in playgrounds and parks.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“So dry your tears. Fortune has not yet turned her hatred against all your blessings. The storm has not yet broken upon you with too much violence. Your anchors are holding firm and they permit you both comfort in the present, and hope in the future.”
― Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy