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Death/Immortality

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

-- Russell M. Nelson, LDS Church News, April 1992 General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

I am become death, shatterer of worlds.

-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion

How could they tell?

-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died

There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for.

-- Tom Robbins

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

-- George Santayana

I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.

-- Seen on a bumper sticker

Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-Box.

-- Wil Shriner

Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.

-- James Thurber

I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.

-- Virginia Woolf

It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

-- Emiliano Zapata