Death and Mourning

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

We were alone with the quiet day, and his little heart, dispossessed, had stopped.

Some say the world will end in fire,

Fourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week. In MY week.

Whom the gods love dies young.

This is no time for making new enemies.

Excuse my dust.

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

THERE IS ONLY ONE CURE FOR GREY HAIR. IT WAS INVENTED BY A FRENCHMAN. IT IS CALLED THE GUILLOTINE.

Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

The final reward of the dead - to die no more

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with gods.

 

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Today’s today. Tomorrow, we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.

He lives in fame that died in virtue’s cause.

For in the sterres, clerer than is glas, Is writen, God woot, whoso koude it rede, The deeth of every man.