Favorite quotes

There are three kinds of death in this world. There’s heart death, there’s brain death, and there’s being off the network.

An orphan’s curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man’s eye!

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

It is hard to have patience with people who say ”There is no death” or ”Death doesn’t matter.” There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn’t matter.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

I don’t believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.