"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation." ― Oscar Wilde Topic(s): Death Tags: everything, nowadays, survive More From Oscar Wilde "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." "Those whom the gods love grow young." "Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to." More In Death "Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist."― W. Somerset Maugham "Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth."― Ernest Hemingway "Faith – you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it."― Samuel Butler