Death Quotes

It is good to die before one has done anything deserving death. (Ananandrides, 4th C. b.c.)

Now death is the most terrible of things; for it is the end, and nothing is thought to be any longer either good or bad for the dead. (Aristotle, 384-322 b.c.)

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases. (Sir Thomas Browne, 1605-1682)

Death comes along like a gas bill one can't pay – and that's all one can say about it. (Anthony Burgess, 1917-1993)

The fear of death is worse than death. (Robert Burton, 1577-1640)

For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off. (Johnny Carson, 1925-)

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter. (Winston Churchill, 1874-1965)

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live. (Martin Luther King Jr., 1929-1968)

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. (Thomas Mann, 1875-1955)

Birth and death are painful not necessarily for the one concerned. It is not death itself but its various causes that are tragic. (Man Ray, 1890-1977)

Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody. (Jerome. D. Salinger, 1919-)

Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end? (Tom Stoppard, 1937-)

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. (Mark Twain, 1835-1910)

I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it. (Mark Twain, 1835-1910)

Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief. (Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900)

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