Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal. - Victor Hugo
With death comes honesty. - Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse.- Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
The great thing about the dead, they make space. - John Updike, Rabbit is Rich
To those who view the voyage of life from the port of departure the bark that has accomplished any considerable distance appears already in close approach to the farther shore. - Ambrose Bierce, "The Death of Halpin Frayser"
Here lies one whose name was writ in water. - John Keats, epitaph for himself
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