Her Casket

Life is a near-death experience. - George Carlin

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

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. - Isaiah Berlin

Death is that after which nothing is of interest. - Rozinov

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

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

If it weren't for the olive, I'd starve to death. - Unknown

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

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

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death. - Mark Batterson

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H.H. Munro

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes. - John Donne

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

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. - Pearl S. Buck

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

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. - Omar Brailey

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

Prison is the worst experience I've ever had in my life - besides death. - Duane Chapman

Never knock on death's door. Ring the bell and run away. Death hates that. - Matt Frewer

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov

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

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none. - Mel Brooks

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

Death is the last enemy; once we've got past that I think everything will be all right. - Alice Thomas Ellis

Easter is a time when God turned the inevitability of death into the invincibility of life. - Craig D Loundsbrough

For death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? - I Corinthians 15:55

When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die. - Ray Bradbury

Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts. - Brigitte Bardot

No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there. - Corra May Harris

I can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death. I think peace and tranquility will return again. - Anne Frank

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. - C S Lewis

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

'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

When my time on Earth is gone and my activities here are past, I want that they should bury me upside down so my critics can kiss my ass. - Bobby Knight

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

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