The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Thornton Wilder

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Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest, as the means that accommodates human life with a soft and easy tranquility, and gives us a pure and pleasant taste of living, without which all other pleasure would be extinct.

Michel de Montaigne

And All Will Come to him on the day of Resurrection alone.

Everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death.

Thomas Bernhard

I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.

I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

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