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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.