"Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is a singularly blessed and accepting child, delighted with life exactly as life presents itself to her, unafraid to go to sleep and unafraid to wake up. Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss."
— Joan Didion

"When we truly love, it is never lost. It is only after death that the depth of the bond is truly felt, and our loved one becomes more a part of us than was possible in life."
— Oriental tradition.

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
— Mark Twain

"Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal."
— Benjamin Franklin

"People living deeply have no fear of death."
— Anaïs Nin

"If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl."
— H.L. Mencken

"Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die"
— Amelia Burr

"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)