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To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddha on death

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

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark Twain on death

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 on death

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pike on death

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Mark Twain on death

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Steve Jobs on death

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
George Eliot on death

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Leonardo da Vinci on death

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.
David Gerrold on death

Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'
Bill Maher on death

I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand.
Benjamin Franklin on death

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Khalil Gibran on death

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
Quintus Ennius on death

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
Marcus Tullius Cicero on death

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca on death

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
Elbert Hubbard on death

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
Gustave Flaubert on death

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
Euripides on death

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Arthur Schopenhauer on death