I was born without knowing why, I have lived without knowing why, and I am dying without either knowing why or how.

Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.

Epitaph, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

It is noble to die before doing anything that deserves death.

The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and, secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.

I looked and there was a pale green horse! Its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed with him.

I think it makes small difference to the dead if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All this is an empty glorification left for those who live.

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.

When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, “He is better off.”

Nobody, sir, dies willingly.

I imagined it was more difficult to die.