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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.

Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

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

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

To be, or not to be: that is the question.