A man who won't die for something is not fit to live. --Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you. --Woody Allen

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born. --Gary Mark Gilmore

Death: to stop sinning suddenly. --Anonymous

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. --W. Somerset Maughm

He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead. --Anonymous

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. --Winston Churchill

I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. --Woody Allen

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom
of heaven would be even worse. --Isaac Asimov

I wouldn't mind dying -- it's the business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me. --R. Geis

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls. --Epicurus

It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. --Woody Allen

Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go. -- Edwin Arlington Robinson

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. --Francis Bacon

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, that is not paid with moan; for we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own. --Francis Thompson

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. --Italian Proverb

One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic. --Josef Stalin

So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living. --Edgar Watson Howe

The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, the smoke of hell - that monster called Pain. --Philip Sidney

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. --Jeremy Taylor

We who are about to die, are going to take one hell of a lot of the bastards with us. --Joel Rosenberg, "The Silver Crown"

What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal. --Albert Pine

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?' -Sydney Harris

When the Black Camel comes for me, I'm not going to go kicking and screaming -- I am, however, going to try to talk my way out of it. --Walter Slovotsky." --Joel Rosenberg

You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea. --Medgar Evers