Her Casket

Life is a near-death experience. - George Carlin

Love has no age, no limit; and no death. - John Galsworthy

It is not death but dying which is terrible. - Henry Fielding

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. - Socrates

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. - W H Auden

Life and joy and beauty are better than dusty death. - Bertrand Russell

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. - Gautama Siddharta

The American Way of life, si! The American Way of death, no! - Archie Bunker

Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me. - Emily Dickinson

Defeat is worse than death because you have to live with defeat. - Bill Musselman

There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana

The tragedy of Mormonism is, a single death makes a dozen widows. - American Saying

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate. - Ambrose Bierce

Death is nature's way of saying, "Your table is ready." - Robin Williams

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. - Albert Einstein

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past. - Fidel Castro

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. - Nancy Reagan

Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death. - Pope John Paul II

A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude. - Ambrose Bierce

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death. - Guy de Maupassant

Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees. - J.J. Furnas

"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death. - Taylor Swift

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by loving. - Anais Nin

Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death. - Soren Kierkegaard

I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. - Voltaire

I'm a Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death. - Jack Kerouac

When I die I want my tombstone to offer free WiFi, just so people will visit more often. - Unknown

I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. - Patrick Henry

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death. - Betty Bender

I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been. - Daniel Keyes

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who'd lost three husbands. - Kin Hubbard

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on. - Louise Erdrich

You might be a redneck if your favorite hunting dog has a bigger tombstone than your grandfather. - Jeff Foxworthy

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death. - James F. Bymes

Their's not to reason why,
Their's but to do and die;
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred. - Alfred Tennyson

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get. - Kevin Spacey

Sir, your remarks are repugnant to me, and I disagree with your viewpoints. But I will defend to the death your right to express them. - Voltaire

Clay. It's rain, dead leaves, dust, all my dead ancestors. Stones that have been ground into sand. Mud. The whole cycle of life and death. - Martine Vermeulen

Dogs display reluctance and wrath
If you try to give them a bath;
They bury bones in hideaways
And half the time they trot sideaways. - Ogden Nash

Grandfather: Death is nothing to be afraid of.
Renee: It's not death I'm afraid of.
Grandfather: What is it, then?
Renee: Life - Yvonne Wood