Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. Mencken, H.L.
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. Horace
Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising. Nagarjuna
Strange – is it not? – that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too. Khayyam, Omar
That which is so universal as death must be a benefit. Schiller, Johann Von
That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. Cicero
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life. Lucan
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. Cicero
The path of immortality is hard, and only a few find it. The rest await the Great Day when the wheels of the universe shall be stopped and the immortal sparks shall escape from the sheaths of substance. Woe unto those who wait, for they must return again, unconscious and unknowing, to the seed-ground of […]
The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, Which hurts and is desired. Shakespeare, William
There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being. Buddha
