“For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.”– George Santayana Related Quotes “Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.”– Jean Cocteau “Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.”– E. W. Howe “Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.”– Thomas Merton