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- Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
- Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
- When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
- Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964)
- California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.
- William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)
- What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
- Dave Barry (1947 - )
- He is one of those peple who would be enormously improved by death
- H.H. Munro (Saki)
- We bury with many different emotions. Rarely with intimations of mortality. 'Buried' is the ultimate separation of them and us. As other's lives are often only dreams to us, so also others' deaths.
- Josephine Hart - "Sin"
- Anyway: I'm not blessed or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do and I do it. Listen: even as we're talking, I'm there for old and young, innocent and guilty, those who die together and those who die alone. I'm in cars and boats and planes, in hospitals and forests and abattoirs. For some folks death is a release and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.
- Neil Gaiman, The Sandman #20: Facade
- We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Public display of mourning is no longer made by people of fashion, although some flashier kinds of widows may insist on sleeping with only black men during the first year after the death.
- PJ O'Rourke
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