“Every cradle asks us “Whence?” and every coffin “Whither?” The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as well as the robed priest of the most authentic creed.Robert G. Ingersoll
“Strange, when you come to think of it, that of all the countless folk who have lived before our time on this planet not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.Max Beerbohm
“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
“A good idea, he thought, to sleep off to death. It was like taking an anaesthetic. Freezing was not so bad as people thought. There were lots worse ways to die…. Then the man drowsed off into what seemed to him the most comfortable and satisfying sleep he had ever known.Jack London
“But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.William Bradford