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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.
How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.
 He who died at Azan sends
 This to comfort all this friends:
  Faithful friends! It lies I read more 
 He who died at Azan sends
 This to comfort all this friends:
  Faithful friends! It lies I know
   Pale and white and cold as snow;
    And ye say, "Abdallah's dead!"
     Weeping at the feet and head.
      I can see your falling tears,
       I can hear your sighs and prayers;
        Yet I smile and whisper this:
         I am not the thing you kiss.
          Cease your tears and let it lie;
           It was mine--it is not I. 
Death hath so many doors to let out life.
Death hath so many doors to let out life.
One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.
One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you read more
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious read more
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.