The Jewish Wisdom Database

All men have the one entrance into life and the one exit.

Life is stronger than any destruction of it.

Know whence you came and whither you go!

The memory of the righteous is a blessing.

Woe to him that lives as a pauper to die rich!

Woe to him that toils all his life to comfort his heirs by his death!

A time to mourn and a time to dance.

Do not be joyful almong the mourners!

Happy he that grew up with a good name and departed this world with one.

It is good to die for our country.

I have lost a dear friend. Did he die? No, he became rich.

Trust not in your wealth until the day of your death.

The righteous man perishes and no one lays it to heart.

In my life of vanity I have seen everything: the righteous man perishing in righteousness, and the wicked man living long in his evil-doing.

The righteous are greater in death than in life.

No righteous man passes away before one like him is created.

When a righteous man is born, it is a boon to the world; when one dies it is a bane.

It was forbidden to break the Sabbath, even when David, king of Israel, died.

Every widower finds his world darkened.

This world is like an anteroom of the world to come.

Three things have a faint savor of the world to come: Sabbath, the sun and married love.

God has created two worlds with a frontier between: one for deeds and the other for rewards.

There is no good thing in this world which will not be better in the next.

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.