I’ll be doing this one David Shields style, with selected quotes. (Shields, by the way, is the author of The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead)

Franz Kafka:

The meaning of life is that it stops.

From Exorcist III: Legion:

Kinderman: The whole world is
a homicide victim, Father.
Would a God who is good
invent something like death?
Plainly speaking, it’s a lousy idea.
Not popular.
Dyer: You’re blaming God.
Kinderman:  Who should I blame? Phil Rizzuto?
Dyer: You don’t want to live forever.
Kinderman: I do.
Dyer: You’d get bored.
Kinderman: I have hobbies.

Mark Twain:

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”

Steve Shives (Five Stupid Things About Death):

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Ernest Hemingway:

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Steve Jobs:

If you live each day as it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.

Homer Simpson:

Feel free to add your own in comments.