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The Cemetery

WHAT TIME IS IT?

About Me



Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.
Edgar Allan Poe(1809 - 1849)

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.
Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2 (250 BC - 250 AD)

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return
Frida Kahlo,Mexican painter (1907 - 1954)

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956), The Mother, 1932

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.
Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)

My Interests

FLOWERS

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)

I'd like to meet:

SEE YOU LATER...

Music:

ANY KIND OF REQUIEM

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC), from Diogenes Laertius

Movies:

NOT ANYMORE...

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Phaedo

Television:

NEVER AGAIN

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), Agamemnon

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)

Books:

NOPE

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Moral Sayings, First Century B.C.

Heroes:

TOO LATE...

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)