"Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow, No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!"
— Mortality

January 1, 1970

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Thomas F. Healey, "Give Me My Roses Now". The Home Book of Quotations, ed. Burton Stevenson, 10th ed., p. 1578 (1967). Reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).