"I think the dead which are already gone [are] more fortunate than the living who still breathe. " ~~ Ecclesiastes (Kohelet) 4:2
"There is but one step between me and death. " ~~ First Samuel (Shmuel 1) 20:3
"Eternity means Jerusalem." ~~ Talmud, Berakhot
"If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water." ~~ Yiddish Proverb
"What you give to charity in health is gold; in sickness, is silver, and after death, is copper." ~~ Tosafot of the Pentateuch
"It was forbidden to break the Sabbath, even when David, king of Israel, died." ~~ Tosefta
"If a man’s wife dies and he has grown-up children, let him not remarry till he marry them off! " ~~ Genesis (Bereshit) R.
"All men have the one entrance into life and the one exit." ~~ Wisdom of Solomon 7:6
"To perish by the sword is worse than a natural death, to die of hunger worse still, and captivity worst of all." ~~ Talmud, Bava Batra
"No man tells lies at death’s door." ~~ Talmud Yerushalmi, Bava Qamma
"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live." ~~ Norman Cousins
"It is nobler to visit a house of mourning than a house of feasting." ~~ Ecclesiastes (Kohelet) 2
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