Spreuken over Dood

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task

Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.