Are not the thoughts of the dying often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, visceral aspect, towards the "seamy side" of death which is, ….
Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt..
For the gift of life, the only true thanks was in living fully, and facing death with honor..
If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them..
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers..
Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and obl….
It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life..
Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all!.
A death is the most terrible of facts..
Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door. Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under….
I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant, an inanimate….
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the othe….
It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery..
Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him..
Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones..
There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the gre….
I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I W….
Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel..
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to se….
Do not sit idle, for indeed death is seeking you.
Death will come when thou art dead, soon, too soon..