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Quotes about Death

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.
- Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
- Woody Allen, US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
- Woody Allen, US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )

CP On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
- Woody Allen, US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )

CP I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.
- Woody Allen, US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
- Plato, Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC)

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
- George Burns, US actor & comedian (1896 - 1996)

CP For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
- Johnny Carson, US comedian & television host (1925 - 2005)

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
- Bertolt Brecht, German Communist & dramatist (1898 - 1956)

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
- Samuel Goldwyn, US (Polish-born) movie producer (1882 - 1974)

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
- Edith Sitwell, English biographer, critic, novelist, & poet (1887 - 1964)

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.
- Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Roman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121 AD - 180 AD)

CP A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
- Joseph Stalin, Georgian Soviet politician (1879 - 1953)

Death is not the worst; rather, in vainTo wish for death, and not to compass it.
- Sophocles, Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC)

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
- Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
- Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British mystery author & physician (1859 - 1930)

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.
- Jonathan Swift, Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 - 1745)

CP Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
- A. Sachs

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci, Italian engineer, painter, & sculptor (1452 - 1519)

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
- Horace, Roman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC - 8 BC)

CP Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
- Aeschylus, Greek tragic dramatist (525 BC - 456 BC)

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
- Epicurus, Greek philosopher (341 BC - 270 BC)

For certain is death for the bornAnd certain is birth for the dead;Therefore over the inevitableThou shouldst not grieve.
- Bhagavad Gita, (250 BC - 250 AD)

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, US science fiction author

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.
- Rodney Yee

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.
- Hugh Elliott, Author of the Standing Room Only Weblog (http://blogs.salon.com/0001573/).

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.
- Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.
- David Assael

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.
- Craig Volk

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.
- Craig Volk

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.
- Pamela Ribon

CP When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.
- Aaron McGruder

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.
- Randy K. Milholland, Webcomic pioneer

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.
- Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (1907 - 1954)

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.
- Antonin Artaud, French actor, critic, & drama theorist (1896 - 1948)

CP Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!
- Matt Frewer