Quotes About Death

Arguing with a dead man in a lavatory is a claustrophobic experience.

Dead men hear no tales; posthumous fame is an Irish bull.

The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.

Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.

I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.

Could a dream kill a man? Could it strangle him where he sat sleeping?

Could a man's heart, his soul, perish and yet leave him walking and talking as if alive?

What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.

The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?

Fear; if allowed free rein, would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men, for whom only death could bring release

Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.

For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.

On the day that you were born, you began to die. Do not waste a single moment more!

My mom died when I was 8.

I haven't cried since Mom died. I mean, after something like that, what's left to cry about, right? But I let myself cry now. Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it. (266)

My mom and father are extremely proud. They love it when I don't die. I've done so many movies where I've died that their first question when I book a job is, 'So, are you going to die in this?'

I gotta die with money cuz i wasn't born with it

The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.

All my life's about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn't cost very much money.

I can't read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.

When we die, the money we can't keep, But we probably spend it all 'cause the pain ain't cheap...

People are always asking me how much I'm worth. Well, all I can say is, I've got enough money to last me the rest of my life. As long as I die in the next 20 minutes.

I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?