Quotes About Death

The dignity we seek in dying must be found in the dignity with which we have lived our lives.

We all wonder about death, where people go and what happens. But certainly, they cross over from this dimension to another one.

I don't know what's so disappointing about being alive, but I will say that the longer I'm alive, the more I appreciate not dying.

Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life to make discoveries.

Ecstasy is almost never discussed anymore, but leaving the earth is one way of attaining it. To exchange ecstasy for death is often the bargain.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Of course, there are diseases of which people die.

When my parents died they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases; one being diabetes.

The man who dies rich, dies in disgrace.

It's a great Disney tradition, isn't it? For every single character to die in all their movies.

I have accumulated no money but I accumulate a lot of happiness. If you get rich, you have an apartment with an extra bedroom - and then you die.

The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not courting it, either. If you have lived well, it is the fair conclusion to life.

I have a spasm of envy for the person that was killed by a falling bookcase, as long as it doesn't happen prematurely.

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

The first memory I have in the world is of death and tears. That is how I would mark the beginning of my life: the way people mark the end of one. My family had gathered at Papa Joe's house because Mam' Grace was slipping away, only I didn't register it that way. For some reason I thought that it was her birthday.

Some of the best jokes are about funerals or people dying or whatever. Laughter and tears are two sides of the same coin.

Characters die all the time. At times, they die amongst a reader's tears, and at others, amongst the applause, and some, still, in quiet satisfaction.

There are some people that are trying to cure death, this tech immortality... That seems mentally ill.

'Death Race' was a very modern action movie, and it used all of those modern action techniques with lots of hand-held camera, lots of punchy zooms, and lots of quick movements and quick cuts.

I don't think so-called high technology matters in death. I think they had high technology before Noah's Ark. And it got lost because that was the first Ice Age.

Ted Hughes is dead. That's a fact, OK. Then there's something called the poetry of Ted Hughes. The poetry of Ted Hughes is more real, very soon, than the myth that Ted Hughes existed - because that can't be proven.

My father always worked away, and died when I was 17, but I hated him by that point. It hit me later in life, but back then I was teenage and angry.