Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal While others on the contrary obtain a victory by exerting at the last moment more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

My faith isn't very churchy it's a pretty personal intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see something happens when the body knows it's about to go. Peptide hormones are released by cells in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland. Endorphins. They attach themselves to the cells responsible for feeling pain.

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread they may satisfy appetite for the moment but there is death in them at the end.

Property is unstable and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas the conduct of mankind is surprising.

Death is with you all the time you get deeper in it as you move towards it but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life in living life happily as it should be lived. Living for the moment.