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Quotes About Death

John Le Mesurier wishes it to be known that he conked out on November 15th. He sadly misses family and friends.
~ Unknown
A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.
~ Robert Benchley
The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.
~ Christopher Bond
I never really had to deal with a death in the family, let alone my brother.
~ Torrey Smith
I thought, 'If I'm going to die, I'm going to videotape it.' So I got out my little video recorder and was taping goodbyes to my family.
~ Estella Warren
My grandmother died of natural causes. Or as my family calls it murdered by the lord.
~ Dane Cook
There have been a lot of murders and suicides in my family; it's like the primary cause of death. I wonder if there's a certain energy that attracts that.
~ Rose McGowan
Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby.
~ Robert Breault
My experiences always influence my writing, but usually only on an emotional level. I have experienced death of a family member and it's easy to dredge up those feelings and get them on the page.
~ Kim Smith
Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do!
~ Groucho Marx
A famous actor, Edmund Kean, on his deathbed, was reported to have said, "Dying is easy. Comedy is hard."
~ Melvin Helitzer
Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.
~ Charlotte Bronte
Only death can finish the fight, everything else only interrupts the fighting.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.
~ Brian Perkins
You're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated.
~ Unknown
The trouble with the dead, as I see it, is they don't stay that way.
~ Unknown
One evening, after a particularly terrible row, the prince smashed his princess over the head with an old wooden clock and she tumbled to the floor, dead.
~ Unknown
We die, you die. You die, we survive. I think there's a pecking order in that, don't you?
~ Unknown
Dirge of the dying and the stench of fear, Black souls repent as hell draws near, " - Percy Pemmeney the smuggler, from Curse of Ancient Shadows.
~ Unknown
An accident of birth had signed her death warrant.He could mark her name off his to-do list.
~ Unknown
Chloe said the first thing that popped into her head., "I don't sleep with dead guys..."Luca gave her an amused look. "Good. I'm not dead. Never have been.... I'm immortal.
~ Unknown
Her 'death' was the only way for her to live.
~ Unknown
What, " asked Mr Croup, "do you want?""What, " asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?""Dead things, " suggested Mr Vandemar. "Extra teeth.
~ Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father's estate
~ Chinua Achebe