1.28.2006


Whoever pretends to face death without fear is a liar.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau

No rational person can die withou uneasy apprehension.
- Samuel Johnson

O mighty death! Those whom none other could convince, thou hast persuaded! Those whom all other flattered thou hast despised! Thous has fetched all greatness, all the pride, all the cruelty, power, and ambition of humanity, and covered it all over with these two litte words: Hic Jacet [Here lies].
- Walter Scott

Death used to be an executioner, but the gospel just makes him a gardener.
- George Herbert

Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
- St. Paul, 1 Corinthians 15:55

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