The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever. Anatole France
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. Guatama Buddha
Death is one moment, and life is so many of them. Tennessee Williams
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. Harriett Beecher Stowe
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. Marcus Tullius Cicero
It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens. Woody Allen
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. Mark Twain
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. C.S. LewisRecommendedOn Death and Dying, The 5th Quarter, and My Life.
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We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance. Marcel Proust
I don’t believe in dying. It’s been done. I’m working on a new exit. Besides, I can’t die now. I’m booked. George Burns
Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in. George Bernard Shaw
Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Susan Ertz