"The stroke of death is as a..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“I hope to see London once ere I die.”

“Reason thus with life:If I do lose thee, I do lose a thingThat none but fools would keep.”

“I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.”

“The sudden hand of Death close up mine eye!”

“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”

“It don't stop 'til the casket drop.”

“Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.”

“When you are fully present with everyone you meet, you relinquish the conceptual identity you made for them - your interpretation of who they are and what they did in the past - and are able to interact without the egoic movements of desire and fear. Attention, which is alert stillness, is the key.”

“To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake”