Except
for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry
for anyone who dies.
-- William M.
Thackeray
1811-1863,
Indian-born British Novelist
Death
is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it
can make us love life and value it with such passion
that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all
art.
-- Paul Theroux
1941-, American
Novelist, Travel Writer
Though
lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have
no dominion.
-- Dylan Thomas
1914-1953, Welsh Poet
Do not
go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn
and rage at close of day.
-- Dylan Thomas
1914-1953, Welsh Poet