The
words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the
living.
-- W. H. Auden
1907-1973,
Anglo-American Poet
To a
father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a
child when a parent dies, the past dies.
-- Red Auerbach
1917-, American
Basketball Coach
Death
is a release from the impressions of the senses, and
from desires that make us their puppets, and from
the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service
of the flesh.
-- Marcus Aurelius
121-80 AD, Roman
Emperor, Philosopher
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills
it like all else.
-- Marcus Aurelius
121-80 AD, Roman
Emperor, Philosopher