"I want death to find me planting my cabbages, neither worrying about it nor the unfinished garden."

-- Montaigne

"Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean."

-- David Sedaris

"Die in thought every morning and you will no longer fear death."

-- Hagakure

"Sexual intercourse is kicking death in the ass while singing."

-- Charles Bukowski

"Just 'cause it ain't

Fulla shit don't mean clear water

Can't drown ya damn dead."

-- Kevin Kerrane

"Many men die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five."

-- Ben Franklin

"unbeing dead isn't being alive."

-- e.e. cummings

"Science progresses funeral by funeral."

-- Max Planck

"I feel myself so much a part of everything living that I am not the least concerned with the beginning or ending of the concrete existence of one person in this eternal flow."

-- Einstein

"Fun is my revenge against mortality."

-- Dustin Hoffman

"We are all cremated equal."

-- Jane Ace

"There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning."

-- Thornton Wilder

"Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death."

-- Erik Erikson

"I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral."

-- Lord Mountbatten

"Most people die with their music still locked up inside them."

-- Benjamin Disraeli

"Any man who has $10,000 when he dies is a failure."

-- Errol Flynn

"No one gets as much of God as those who are thoroughly dead."

-- Meister Eckhart

"When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."

-- Samuel Johnson

"There are so many little dyings that it doesn't matter which of them is death."

-- Kenneth Patchen

"People living deeply have no fear of death."

-- Anais Nin