What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains read more

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

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

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

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 is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

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

For death begins with life's first breath
And life begins at touch of death.

For death begins with life's first breath
And life begins at touch of death.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and read more

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

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

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

Death-the last voyage, the longest and the best.

Death-the last voyage, the longest and the best.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

They that know no evil will suspect none.