If there were something that Mother Nature or God could do with money, She or He would have sold immortality to the rich a long time ago.

Other than the promise of life after death, nothing consoles the poor better than the fact that rich people are also subject to death.

In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man’s dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass.

Millions of deaths would not have happened if it weren’t for the consumption of alcohol. The same can be said about millions of births.

Not everyone who has killed themselves because they were HIV positive would have been killed by AIDS.

The continuation of man’s life is more attributable to his fear of death than it is to his desire to live. As a matter of fact, in countless cases, it is attributable to only the former.

Some people are still alive only because they find being dead more boring than being alive.

Some people each left their spouse or lover because he or she was no longer the primary source of their happiness; some, because their spouse or lover was, at that time, the primary source of their unhappiness.

Some people’s deaths would not have pained us had we not known that to them we were related.