"Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering." ― Theodore Roosevelt Topic(s): Death More From Theodore Roosevelt "It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things." "The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits." "Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time." More In Death "Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead."― Giacomo Casanova "Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure."― Errol Flynn "Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it."― W. Somerset Maugham