Quotes About Death

Why do they bother with a suicide watch when someone is on death row? "Keep an eye on this guy. We're gonna kill him, and we don't want him to hurt himself."

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.

I've thought a lot about how if something horrible happened, and if it were like 'The Road' situation, I've decided I don't want to survive past the death of society as we know it.

I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out, I know. I don't really want to be reincarnated.

Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.

When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.

What a nasty act of cruelty, giving a dying man his last wish. Don't you realize he doesn't want it? His real wish is not to die.

A headline last year, after the death of Saddam Hussein, read: 'Tyrant is hanged'. My auntie looked at the newspaper and sobbed, 'Who's going to present "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"'

YOU FEAR TO DIE? "It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break.

He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.

Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.

Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.

As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?

For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am I A happy fly If I live Or if I die

Sirs, I have tested your machine. It adds a new terror to life and makes death a long-felt want.

I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be.

I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how.

I've changed my mind. I've decided that at the end I want to be cremated and my ashes scattered over someone I don't like.

Three-quarters of people say they want to die at home, but only a quarter of people actually do.

I think it's very interesting that [doctors] privilege the self that is saying, "I don't want to die," but want to discount the self that said, "I want to allow natural death in such a situation."

Well, I'm not putting death on the agenda. I don't want to see my old friend Lucifer just yet. He's the guy I'm gonna see, isn't it? I'm not going to the Other Place, let's face it.

When I was sick, I didn't want to die. When I race, I don't want to lose. Dying and losing, it's the same thing.

When people ask me that, I say I don't want to be remembered. It means I'm no longer around.

Wealth oft-times killeth, where want but hindered the budding.