Quotes about Death!

“Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.”
— Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5.

“Nobody gets out alive.”
       — Sydney J. Harris, Author & Columnist

Question: “What will it be like after I die?”
Answer:    “Remember what it was like before you were born?…  It will be like that.”
       — Arthur Schopenhauer 

“I’m not afraid of dying. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”
       — Woody Allen

“Death means nothing to us, because that which has been broken down into atoms has no sensation, and that which has no sensation is no concern of ours.” 
—  Epicurus

“How sad it is to think of the multitudes who have gone to their graves in this beautiful Hawaiian Island, and never knew there was a Hell until the Christian missionaries arrived.”
— Mark Twain, Lecturing in San Francisco, 1866 or 1867.

Nature’s Path of Continuing Creation says this about Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory:
“We have bad news and good news:
> The bad news is — there is no heaven and no reincarnation.
> The good news is — there is no hell and no purgatory.”
—  J.X. Mason

Question: “How can I deal with death?”
Answer:   “Just live with it.”
— Unknown

“Why would I want to go to Heaven?  None of my friends will be there.”
— Mark Twain

“Eternity is an awfully long time…especially toward the end.”
— Attributed to Woody Allen

Ask yourself, what is expendable, and what lives on?

> I will die out, but my writings and songs may live on, perhaps indefinitely.
> I will die, but my lineage may live on, perhaps indefinitely.
> My lineage may die out, but my species lives on.
> My species may die out, but mammals may live on.
> Humans and animals may die out, but Nature’s Continuing Creation may still live on.
— J.X. Mason

“I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve it through not dying.”
— Woody Allen