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

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

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

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

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

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

God's finger touched him, and he slept.

God's finger touched him, and he slept.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone read more

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!.

Most people would rather die than think;
in fact, they do so.

Most people would rather die than think;
in fact, they do so.

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.