Her Casket

The death of a beloved is an amputation. - C S Lewis

It is not death that alarms me, but dying. - Michel De Montaigne

What happens if you get scared half to death twice? - Steven Wright

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. - Mark Twain

Of all the escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. - H L Mencken

The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb. - German Proverb

After your death, you will be what you were before your birth. - Arthur Schopenhauer

The Irish forgive their great men when they are safely buried. - Unknown

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

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

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. - J K Rowling

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's. - Oscar Wilde

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. - Fulton J. Sheen

Death twitches my ear. "Live," he says; "I am coming." - Virgil

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

Was Uncle Oscar's death very untimely, you ask? Well, it was near lunch. - Archie Bunker

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

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. - Leonardo da Vinci

Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world. - Mark Twain

Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy. - Edward Abbey

However much you may try to delay, you are fated to meet the same death as I did. - Tiberius Gracchus

You need to bury the hatchet. No need to hold grudges. That only weighs you down. - Ken Shamrock

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

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. - William Shakespeare

Death had to take him in his sleep, for if he was awake there'd have been a fight. - Theodore Roosevelt

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

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright

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

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom. - George Carlin

My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping. - Rita Rudner

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. - Oscar Wilde

I was court-martialled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. - Brendan Behan

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

If you think that praise is due, now's the time to show it, 'cause a man can't read his tombstone when he's dead. - Unknown

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking. - Deepak Chopra

'Till death do us part' doesn't sound so horrible. It only means about 10 or 15 years and not the eternity it used to mean. - Joy Behar

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

Today is yesterday's victory, yesterday is tomorrow's conquest, and tomorrow is today's war. Though I face death, I am not fearsome. - Nadège Richards

Thirteen roadways lead through life
To thirteen doors of death,
Homeward from foolish fears and strife
We float on failing breath. - Tao

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