Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

—— Susan Ertz

I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

—— Woody Allen

I don't want to achieve immortality 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 tune.

—— Woody Allen

The 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

Glory is fleeting, 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.

—— Buddha

Neither fire nor wind , birth nor death can erase 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

I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.

——Nathan Hale

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He had decided 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, Almighty 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 seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully 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.

< p> ——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 killing for .

—— Tom Robbins

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

—— 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 bumper 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.

< p> Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.

—— James Thurber

I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the str.

eet.

—— Virginia Woolf

It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

—— Emiliano Zapata

< p> 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