When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world read more

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths read more

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught read more

In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught is liable to choke one, here one never receives a favour until he loses another instead, here every additional day in one's life is a day reduced from the total span of his existence, when death is the natural outcome of life, how can we expect immortality?

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!

Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.

Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.