“I'll sleep when I'm dead.”
Warren Zevon
“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”
George Bernard Shaw
“When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.”
George F. Burns
“That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.”
William McKinley
“When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me”
Christina G. Rossetti
“No longer mourn for me when I am deadThan you shall hear the surly sullen bellGive warning to the world that I am fledFrom this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell.”
William Shakespeare
“Carve not upon a stone when I am dead, The praises which remorseful mourners give; To women's graves - a tardy recompense, But speak them while I live”
Elizabeth Akers Allen