~LIFE vs DEATH~

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality by living forever." ~Woody Allen

"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."~Woody Allen

"Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it." ~Somerset Maugham

"Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation is a smile." ~Juli Burchill

"To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead." ~Samuel Butler

"It's a matter of life after death, now that he's dead I have a life." ~Clue

"I have all the time in the world to worry about death when I am dead." ~Leonard Reiss

"Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live." ~Henry Van Dyke

"Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one." ~Vladimir Nabokov

"Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? Is it because we are not the person involved?" ~Mark Twain

"A man does not die of old age; he dies of being a man." ~Percival Arland Ussher

"The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation." ~Herman Hesse

"As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven." ~Doug Horton

"Millions long for immortality but do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." ~Susan Ertz

"In yet a little while
  I shall have won;
  Then the whole fight
  Will at once be done.
  Then I may rest
  In bowers of roses
  And unceasingly, unceasingly
  Speak with my Jesus." ~H. A. Brorson

"Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of pronlonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well." ~Miguel De Unamuno