The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

Joan Baez

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Havelock Ellis

Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be.

Joan Didion

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Winston Churchill

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.

Amelia Burr