Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home..
Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers prayer ….
Feeling funny in my mind, Lord I believe I'm fixing to die Well, I don't mind dying But I hate to leave my children crying Well, I look over yonder t….
I'd rather die than go to heaven..
Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him..
Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core..
She was lying like a loaf of bread. I said, baby, baby, baby, are you dead?.
Brief life is here our portion..
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if….
As for death, one gets used to it, even if it is only other people is death you get used to..
Never forget that you must die; that death will come sooner than you expect... God has written the letters of death upon your hands. In the inside of….
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds..
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die..
If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention..
But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Deat….
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little ….
A man dies ... only a few circles in the water prove that he was ever there. And even they quickly disappear. And when they're gone, he's forgotten, ….
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks..
You don't know what is going to come to you in this world; you have to go on living and worrying. Those who die are pitying us; they are blessing us.….
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known..
The proper study of mankind is the science of design..