- "The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind."
-- John Allston - "What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death."
-- Dave Barry - "Now comes the mystery."
-- Henry Ward Beecher - "Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways."
--Stephen Vincent Benet - "The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live."
-- Dr. Joan Borysenko - "He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door."
-- Heywood Brown - "Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely."
-- Buddha - "Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile."
-- Julie Burchill - "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die."
--Thomas Campbell - "I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain."
-- Joyce Cary - "I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived."
-- Willa Cather - "I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
-- Winston Churchill - "Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console."
--Charles C. Colton - "Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."
--Norman Cousins - "He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - "How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty."
-- Eric Hoffer - "Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes - "Tis after death that we measure men."
-- James Barron Hope - "Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it."
-- W. Somerset Maugham - "Death teaches us to live; it gives us a boundary to map our living within. Death's hammer breaks through the mirror separating us from light."
--David Meltzer - "Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good."
-- William Mitford - "He that lives to forever, never fears dying."
-- William Penn - "Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names."
-- Proverb - "To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."
-- Bertrand Russell - "Most people would rather die than think: many do."
-- Bertrand Russell - "Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."
-- A. Sachs - "There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. "
-- George Santayana - "Death--the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening."
-- Sir Walter Scott - "A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor."
-- Seneca - "Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it."
-- William Shakespeare - "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
-- George Bernard Shaw - "Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-Box."
-- Wil Shriner - "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe - "Birth and death are like ships: why do we rejoice over a ship setting out on a journey when we know not the she may encounter on the seas? We should rejoice when the ship returns safely to the port."
--Midrash Tanhuma - "All say 'How hard it is that we have to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live."
-- Mark Twain - "I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done."
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox - "I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street."
-- Virginia Woolf - "It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees."
-- Emiliano Zapata
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