I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. -- Woody AllenI don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody AllenIt's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. -- Woody AllenThe only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John AllstonWhat I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. -- Dave BarryGlory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. -- Napoleon BonaparteThe question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. -- Joan BorysenkoHe who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. -- Heywood BrownEven death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. -- BuddhaNeither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. -- BuddhaDeath does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. -- EpicurusMillions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan ErtzI regret that I have but one life to give for my country. -- Nathan HaleHe had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. -- J. HellerIs 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 HenryWe 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 SaintsI am become death, shatterer of worlds. -- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosionHow could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had diedThere are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. -- Tom RobbinsThere is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George SantayanaI want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. -- Seen on a bumper stickerEverything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-Box. -- Wil ShrinerEarly to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead. -- James ThurberI have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. -- Virginia WoolfIt is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. -- Emiliano ZapataBeginning 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