America Quote by Benjamin Franklin

If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes…

— M. F. K. Fisher

Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were…

— Gene Wolfe

While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are…

— Anonymous

“There is no task as urgent for us as to learn daily how to die, but our knowledge of death is not increased by…

— Rilke, Rainer Maria

“Left to their own devices, human bodies rot, decompose, come apart, and sink gloriously back into the earth from whence they came. Using embalming…

— Caitlin Doughty

in coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring uneasily in…

— Eileen Simpson

That was one of the most fundamental and sacred duties good friends and families performed for one another! They tended the flame of memory,…

— Dean Koontz

Nothing is more detestable to the physical anthropologist than... the wretched habit of cremating the dead. It involves not only a prodigal waste of…

— Earnest Hooton

One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize those occasions…

— Roger Rosenblatt

...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying.

— Mercedes Lackey

I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men…

— Davy Crockett

My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My…

— George Bernard Shaw