We rarely find anyone

We rarely find anyone

who can say he has lived a happy life,

and who, content with his life,

can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
-  Horace -

Death most resembles

Death most resembles a prophet

who is without honor in his own land or

a poet who is a stranger among his people.
-  Khalil Gibran -

when you are enraged at any one

Consider,

when you are enraged at any one,

what you would probably think if he

should die during the dispute.
-  Lucius Annaeus Seneca  -

When good men die

When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,
All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
-  Euripides -

I am prepared to meet my Maker

I am prepared to meet my Maker.

Whether my Maker is prepared for the great

ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
-  Winston Churchill -

Our fear of death

Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short,

but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit,

and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson  -

No one knows whether death

No one knows whether death,

which people fear to be the greatest evil,

may not be the greatest good.
-  Plato -

Cowards die many times

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
-  William Shakespeare -

I went to the woods

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.
- Henry David Thoreau  -

If my decomposing

If my decomposing carcass helps nourish

the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a

vulture - that is immortality enough for me.

And as much as anyone deserves.
- Edward Abbey -