Death doesn't take the time to knock on the door.

Nobody tries to steal your troubles, and no one can take your good deeds.

—Yiddish folk saying

In a quarrel, each side is right.

—Yiddish folk saying

The absence of the dead . . . is their way of appearing.

—Simone Weil

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

—Oscar Wilde

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character…would you slow down? Or speed up?

—Chuck Palahniuk in Invisible Monsters

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.

—Maurice Chevalier

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

—Joseph Stalin