Quotes by Subject: Death
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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work...I want to achieve it through not dying. | * | ||
Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up. | * | ||
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. | |||
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life. | |||
Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end? | |||
My father's death taught me I had no time to waste. | |||
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. | |||
In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes. | |||
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. | |||
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down. | |||
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. | * | ||
I know you've come to kill me. Shoot, coward, you're only going to kill a man. | |||
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. | |||
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not; this gives us no concern -- why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be? | |||
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. | |||
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have know will go to heaven, and very , very few persons. | |||
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us. | * | ||
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. | * | ||
Funeral Blues Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone. Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling in the sky the message He is Dead, Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves, Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever, I was wrong. The stars are not wanted now; put out every one, Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun. Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood; For nothing now can ever come to any good. | |||
Hell is full of musical amateurs. | * | ||
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead. | |||
Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. | |||
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die. | |||
Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that! | * | ||
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven. | |||
Birth and copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks. | |||
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. . .The other eight are unimportant. | |||
You think that their dying is the worst thing that could happen. Then they stay dead. | |||
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse. | |||
It is not length of life, but depth of life. | |||
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. | |||
In heaven all the interesting people are missing. | |||
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is notat home. | |||
Death is my exit strategy. | * | ||
Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality. | |||
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man. | |||
*indicates a past Quote of The Week
