We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance. ~Marcel Proust
Rebirth?
God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled.
Look Out Behind You
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. ~Mark Twain
Lunch in Mid-Air
I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
~Jean Giraudoux,
A Cunning Disguise
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. ~Maurice Maeterlinck
Death Among The Lavender
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. ~Samuel Butler
The Last Leap
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. ~Mark Twain
Camouflaged Capture
If you spend all your time worrying about dying, living isn't going to be much fun. ~From the television show Roseanne
Kiss of the Spiderwoman?
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. ~Leonardo Da Vinci
Death Gets a Visitor
There are so many little dyings that it doesn't matter which of them is death. ~Kenneth Patchen
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