"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."

Addison, Joseph | Happiness | 6 bookmarks

"Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day."

Thomas, Dylan | Death and Dying | 6 bookmarks

"Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies."

Thackeray, William M. | Death and Dying | 2 bookmarks

"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."

Stevenson, Robert Louis | Death and Dying | 2 bookmarks

"If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs."

Spark, Muriel | Death and Dying | 3 bookmarks

"The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows."

Socrates | Death and Dying | 5 bookmarks

"How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe | Death and Dying | 2 bookmarks

"I want to be all used up when I die."

Shaw, George Bernard | Death and Dying | 5 bookmarks

"Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing --a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces."

Shaw, George Bernard | Death and Dying | 4 bookmarks

"Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it."

Shakespeare, William | Death and Dying | 4 bookmarks