I agree with you entirely in condemning the mania of giving names to objects of any kind after persons still living. Death alone can seal the title of any man to this honor, by putting it out of his power to forfeit it. Thomas Jefferson

• death
• legacy

Let us endeavour so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. Mark Twain

• virtue
• death

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

• death

If you live right, death is a joke to you as far as fear is concerned. Will Rogers

• death

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I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. Sir Winston Churchill

• death

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die. For the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It's a sort of splendid torch which I've got to hold up for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. George Bernard Shaw

• life
• death

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life. Bertolt Brecht

• death
• legacy

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. Steve Jobs

• death

I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - when he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do. Harry Truman

• death
• legacy
• effort

The friends that we have lost do not repose in the bosom of the earth, but are buried deep in our hearts. Alexandre Dumas

• death

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We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. Chuck Palahniuk

• death
• legacy

The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. Will Rogers

• death
• funny
• taxes

You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think. If the gods exist, then to abandon human beings is not frightening; the gods would never subject you to harm. And if they don't exist, or don't care what happens to us, what would be the point of living in a world without gods or Providence? But they do exist, they do care what happens to us, and everything a person needs to avoid real harm they have placed within him. Marcus Aurelius

• death

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You cannot lose another life than the one you're living now, or live another one than the one you're losing. Marcus Aurelius

• death
• life

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Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore? Marcus Aurelius

• fear
• death

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death. Publilius Syrus

• death

After you retire, there's only one big event left, and I ain't ready for that. Bobby Bowden

• death

A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. Seneca

• death

This is the source.

As it is with a play, so it is with life - what matters is not how long the acting lasts, but how good it is. It is not important at what point you stop. Stop wherever you will - only make sure that you round it off with a good ending. Seneca

• death

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I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure. Mark Twain

• death
• hate

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying. Martin Luther

• death
• belief
• faith