"The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it’s just sort of a tired feeling." ― Paula Poundstone Topic(s): Death More From Paula Poundstone "My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, ‘Mom, they weren’t trying to teach you how to swim.’" "I’m thankful for the three ounce Ziploc bag, so that I have somewhere to put my savings." "I’m thankful that my memory is good because my vision is going." More In Death "To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death."― Jean Anouilh "Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."― Emily Dickinson "The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual’s way of being in the world."― Stanislav Grof