When I die I shall be content to vanish into nothingness…. No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever…. I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it. – H.L. Mencken
He had the unmistakable sensation of being wounded so near to death that he felt his soul slide out of him, then slip back. – Norman Mailer, preface to 1976 reissue of Advertisements for Myself, referring t
And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds. – Homer, Iliad
To the psychotherapist an old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as a young man who is unable to embrace it. – C.G. Jung
Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his physicians cannot cure. – Mortimer Collins
Death is patiently making my mask as I sleep. Each morning I awake to discover in the corners of my eyes the small tears of his wax. – Philip Dow
Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed. – Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Death is just another stage of life, although the one you kind of hope comes last. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. – Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That signifies nothing. For us believing physicists the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. – Albert Einstein
There is only one ultimate and effectual preventive for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death. – Harvey Cushing
A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist. – Stewart Alsop
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. – Thomas Browne, An Essay on Death
Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees. – J.J. Furnas
Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly. – Elbert Hubbard
I intend to live forever. So far, so good. – Steven Wright
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. – Buddha
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. – George Eliot
Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order. – David Gerrold
I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand. – Benjamin Franklin
