"Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate." ― Ambrose Bierce Topic(s): Death More From Ambrose Bierce "Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization." "Dawn: When men of reason go to bed." "Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one’s voice." More In Death "Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other."― Francis Bacon "There’s been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn’t have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can’t count the ways a director’s vision is compromised."― Lili Taylor "Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death."― Rollo May