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"Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out."
"Don't die with your music still inside."
"Death rock me asleep."
"Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf."
"Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!"
"Here lies one whose name was writ in water."
"To the last day of your life, be positive; try to be cheerful. Even at the very end, don't think, "I am finished." Instead of pitying yourself, you should be thinking, "O ye who are left on this desolate shore still to mourn and deplore, it is I who pity you." Death will not give you any trouble if you have a clear conscience; and if you go with this thought: "Lord, I am in Thy hands.""
"I don't want to just die a normal death, I wanna be killed twice."
"It is an exquisite and beautiful thing in our nature, that, when the heart is touched and softened by some tranquil happiness or affectionate feeling, the memory of the dead comes over it most powerfully and irresistibly. It would seem almost as though our better thoughts and sympathies were charms, in virtue of which the soul is enabled to hold some vague and mysterious intercourse with the spirits of those whom we loved in life. Alas! how often and how long may these patient angels hover around us, watching for the spell which is so soon forgotten!"
"Someday a loving Hand will be laid upon our shoulder and this brief message will be given: "Come home."
"When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun."
"Give me a paper and pen, so I can write about my life of sin. A couple of bottles of gin, in case I don't get in."
"I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life."
"I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace."
"I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn."
"You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting."
"The dead don't die. They look on and help."
"A person starts dying when they stop dreaming."
"I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
"...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened."
