The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark Twain
“For love is something so positive, so strong, so real that it is as impossible for one who loves to take back that feeling as it is to take his own life. If you reply to this by saying, “But there are people who put an end to their own life,” I simply answer, “I really do not think I am a man with such inclinations.”Life has become very dear to me, and I am very glad that I love. My life and my love are one.”
-Vincent van Gogh, Letter to Theo (November 7th, 1881)
When you’re dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you’re dead? Nobody.
J.D. Salinger, Catcher In The Rye
Carl Sagan on Science and Religion
Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.
Langston Hughes
Tell them i had a wonderful life
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s last words
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Death in The Afternoon, Ernest Hemingway
“The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways — I to die, and you to live.”
-Socrates, The Apology
“The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.”
-Woody Allen
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