I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?

I order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song or music.

Epitaph, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

The dead are often just as living to us as the living are, only we cannot get them to believe it. They can come to us, but till we die we cannot go to them. To be dead is to be unable to understand that one is alive. 

Under the wide and starry sky, / Dig the grave and let me lie.

I think it makes small difference to the dead if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All this is an empty glorification left for those who live.

Death keeps no calendar.

Whoever has died is freed from sin.

There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.

If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.

Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.

The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.