" We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with -- Don Marquis, from "The Definitive Guide to Underground Humor "

Last words of Voltaire when his bedside lamp flared: "What? The flames already?"
from True Tales and Twisted Trivia

How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Oscar Wilde, from Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off -- Johnny Carson,
from "The Definitive Guide to Underground Humor "

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work… I want to achieve it through not dying. -- Woody Allen, from "The Definitive Guide to Underground Humor

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. -- W. Somerset Maugham, from "The Definitive Guide to Underground Humor "

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you'll lose your chance. I mean you can always do it later. -- Harvey Fierstein, from "The Definitive Guide to Underground Humor "

"I am ready to meet my maker but whether my maker is prepared for (…) meeting me is another matter." -- Deepak Chopra, from True Tales and Twisted Trivia

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you'll lose your chance. I mean you can always do it later. -- Harvey Fierstein, from "The Definitive Guide to Underground Humor "

There is nothing to be feared in death, because one who is not cannot be made unhappy -- De Rerum Natura book, from Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. Oscar Wilde, from Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Mrs. Allonby: They say, Lady Hunstanton, that when good Americans die they go to Paris. Lady Hunstanton: Indeed? And when bad Americans die, where do they go to? Lord Illingworth: Oh, they go to America. -- Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde, from Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Something was dead in each of us,
And what was dead was Hope
Oscar Wilde, from Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Yet each man kills the thing he loves, (...)
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word.
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sward!
Oscar Wilde, from Oxford Dictionary of Quotations