"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." ― E. M. Forster Topic(s): Death More From E. M. Forster "The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art." "The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal." "Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him." More In Death "I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end."― Pope John XXIII "Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order."― David Gerrold "You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face."― Ian Fleming