"The river of life…flows from birth toward death. Day follows day with wearisome monotony. Only the holidays twine themselves together to form the circle of the year. Only through the holidays does life experience the eternity of the river that returns to its source. Then life becomes eternal." ~~ Franz Rosenzweig
"The meaning of life is that it stops." ~~ Franz Kafka
"If a man means to kill you, stike first!" ~~ Talmud, Berakhot
"Live as if you expect to live forever, but plan as if you expect to enter the hereafter tomorrow." ~~ Ibn Gabirol
"All men are equal when they are underground." ~~ Traditional Proverb
"One dies in perfect prosperity, wholly at ease and secure. . .Another in bitterness of soul, with never a taste of good. " ~~ Job (Iyov) 21:23-25
"Repent the day before you die [which means every day, for who knows the day of his death]. " ~~ Rabbi Eliezer, Avot 2:10
"A man may die even without a doctor." ~~ Yiddish Proverb
"My doctor gave me six months to live but when I couldn’t pay his bill gave me six months more. " ~~ Walter Matthau
"A man whose first wife dies is as though the Temple was destroyed in his lifetime. " ~~ Talmud, Sanhedrin
"As the Angel of Death is licensed to destroy, he does not trouble to distinguish between righteous and wicked." ~~ Talmud, Bava Qamma
"More die from overeating than from undereating." ~~ Nachman of Bratslav
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