Quotes About Death

Most persons have died before they expired - died to all earthly longings so that the last breath is only as it were the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

Mausoleum n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.

Epitaph n: an inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

And I looked and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death.

Who never caused others to die Seldom rates a statue.

Nothing you can lose by dying is half so precious as the readiness to die which is man's charter of nobility.

Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Death is terrible to Cicero desirable to Cato and indifferent to Socrates.

If this is dying I don't think much of it.

Make sure to send a lazy man for the Angel of Death.

Though this may be play to you Tis death to us.

Earth to earth ashes to ashes dust to dust in sure and certain hope of the resurrection.

We begin to die as soon as we are born and the end is linked to the beginning.

I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade.

For my family to go on living the way they are living now I can't just die. I've got to die accidentally.

Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination try to visualize a world without death.

Everybody's gotta die sometime. That's life.

I want to die like my grandfather died . . . peacefully in his sleep. Not like the other three people screaming in the car.

The best way to get praise is to die.

No matter how rich you become how famous or powerful when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

JD/Dr Cox: The second you start blaming yourself for people's deaths, there's no coming back.

Every day is a lie, he said. But you are dying. That is not a lie.

My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death now I see it from my son's perspective.