“Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.”– Edward Young Related Quotes “No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.”– Billy Graham “Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.”– Tennessee Williams “Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don’t make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn’t death.”– Stevie Ray Vaughan