Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.
The reality is if you were going to die tomorrow, and someone offered you another 10 years, most people would take those 10 years.
What does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world?
All I'm trying to do is not join my ancestral spirits just yet.
The Grim Reaper doesn't disappear... he catches up.
...he seemed to approach the grave as an hyperbolic curve approaches a line, less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all.
Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.
A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
