I was never afraid of failure after that because I think coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years the actual experience of course fades but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?

My father I liked but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.

Should I perchance still feel after my death I would no longer have any doubt but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.

I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's because they have to deal with death 10 times over year after year.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea but I am skeptical as to its results.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of power after power that ceaseth only in death.

It's an incredible con job when you think about it to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

There is no harm in patience and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God and your sorrow will be lessened.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

Death is the easiest of all things after it and the hardest of all things before it.

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden mysterious realm on the contrary it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.

Families survive one way or another. You have a tie a connection that exists long after death through many lifetimes.

Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.

After the writer's death reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

The ideal death I think is what was the ideal Victorian death you know with your grandchildren around you a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?

I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Smiles tears of all my life! - and if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

And yet I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.