Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor. ~Homer, Iliad

Lily, My condolences are with you and your family. There's never a "right time" and it's never easy and fortunately, or unfortunately, I'm not sure, but life goes on. You always have a shoulder to cry on. I'm sorry.

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. ~Mark Twain

There is always death and taxes; however, death doesn't get worse every year. ~Author Unknown

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. ~Mark Twain

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. ~Henry Van Dyke

Because I could not stop for Death,

He kindly stopped for me.

The Carriage held but just ourselves

And Immortality

~Emily Dickinson

There's nothing certain in a man's life except this: That he must lose it. ~Aeschylus, Agamemnon

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. ~Norman Cousins

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. ~Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath. ~John Donne

Years, following years, steal something every day;At last they steal us from ourselves away. ~Horace

In any man who dies there dies with himhis first snow and kiss and fight....Not people die but worlds die in them. ~Yevgeny Yevtushenko, "People"

The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love. ~Madame de Stael