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

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

Why fear death when it is the only path to meet the Maker.

Why fear death when it is the only path to meet the Maker.

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

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

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. read more

It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.

He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.

He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.