I don t want to achieve immortality1 through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen
It s impossible to experience one s death objectively and still carry a tune2. -- Woody Allen
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 immaturity3 followed by death. -- Dave Barry
Glory is fleeting4, but obscurity is forever. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. -- 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. -- Buddha5
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase6 our good deeds. -- Buddha
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. -- Epicurus
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. -- Nathan Hale
He had decided7 to live forever or die in the attempt. -- J. Heller
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty8 God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death! -- Patrick Henry
We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings9 of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully10 flower in heaven. -- Russell M. Nelson, LDS Church News, April 1992 General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
I am become death, shatterer of worlds. -- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world s first nuclear explosion
How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing11 for. -- Tom Robbins
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval12. -- George Santayana
I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. -- Seen on a bumper13 sticker
Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-Box. -- Wil Shriner
Early to rise and early to bed.
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
Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976. -- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Department of Public Aid
