• "Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death." - Desmond Morris Tweet
• "Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead." - Giacomo Casanova Tweet
• "There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed." - Albert Camus Tweet
• "Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death." - Jackie Kennedy Tweet
• "The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca Tweet
• "All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life." - Thomas Mann Tweet
• "In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded." - Tom Robbins Tweet
• "One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life." - Jean-Paul Sartre Tweet
• "The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling." - Paula Poundstone Tweet
• "I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation." - Paul Ryan Tweet