Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. â¢Woody Allen At the end of the game the king and the pawn go back in the same box. â¢Italian Proverb Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one. â¢Vladimir Nabokov Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck. â¢George Sanders, his suicide note There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. â¢Santayana Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. â¢George Bernard Shaw Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. â¢Dylan Thomas To live is to dream and to die is to awaken. â¢Anonymous We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so at the moment after death. â¢Nathaniel Hawthorne All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. â¢Anatole France We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell. â¢Plato Dying is like getting out of a car. You leave a shell behind, but you're the same person as ever. â¢President Klein The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy . What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. â¢Richard Bach If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. â¢Albert Camus We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal. â¢Anatole France I'm the one who has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to. â¢Jimi Hendrix The real malady is fear of life, not of death.
One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) "He has St. Vitus's dance," "He has nerve fever," "He has dropsy," "He has ague," since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.
I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.
Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.
A jade curtain of willow fronds parts world of green earth from that of blue pond A grey curtain of morning mist separates turquoise waters from blue sky A more slender veil is at the portal hiding the paradise of the immortal.
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.
In death a hero, as in life a friend!.
There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!.
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there.
It was from an old friend who . thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.
It is better to spend your time at funerals than at festivals. For you are going to die, and you should think about it while there is still time. (7:3).
Life without a friend is death without a witness.
It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice; there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
Some say the world will end in fire, some say ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.
Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear, Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
Due to technical difficulties the light at the end of the tunnel will be off until further notice.
And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.
Never spend your money before you have it.
One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back.