I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, "Verify your quotations."
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of the dead.
To the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure.
I kneel in the nights before tigers that will not let me be. What you were will not happen again. The tigers have found me and I do not care.
I do not fear death, in view of the fact that I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life.
I had no thoughts at all, only an overwhelming desire not to feel anything ever again.
You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.