Death

"When you are born, the world rejoices and you cry. Live your life so that when you die, you rejoice and the world cries.
--Cherokee Proverb (Contributed by Mike Turner)

"Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it."
-- W. Somerset Maughm

"Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality."
-- William Ernest Hocking

"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
-- Hector Berlioz

"The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives."
-- Albert Schweitzer

"I don't want to acieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve is through not dying."
-- Woody Allen

"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."
-- Mark Twain

"I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."
-- Woody Allen

"The art of living well and dying well are one."
--Epicurus

"I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell -- you see, I have friends in both places."
--Mark Twain

"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 see."
--Helen Keller

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