"What is the meaning of “you shall die and not live” (Second Kings 20:2)? You shall die in this world and not live in the next. " ~~ Talmud, Berakhot
"A childless man is as good as dead." ~~ Talmud, Nedarim
"A favor done to the dead is an honest one. " ~~ Genesis (Bereshit) R.
"No man dies before his time." ~~ Yiddish Proverb
"Woe to him that lives as a pauper to die rich!" ~~ Mishle Yehoshua
"Do not be joyful almong the mourners!" ~~ Mishle Agur
"If your time has not come, even the doctor will not succeed in killing you." ~~ Yiddish Proverb
"Man enters the world with closed hands, as if to say, “The world is mine”; he leaves with open hands, as if to say, “I take nothing with me.”" ~~ Midrash Ecclesiastes R. 5:14
"When a righteous man is born, it is a boon to the world; when one dies it is a bane." ~~ Talmud, Sanhedrin
"Lord, let me know my end, and what the measure of my days, that I may know how frail I am!" ~~ Psalms/Tehillim 39:5
"Death and life are in the power of one’s tongue. " ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 18:21
"If you see a graveyard before you, know that the town is nearby." ~~ Midrash Tehillim
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