Death Quotes

"I am about to take my last voyage. A great leap in the dark."

"Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe."

"A good man dies when a boy goes wrong."

"God's retirement plan is out of this world"

"It was once said that if you took all of the people who fell asleep in church and laid them end to end they would be more comfortable."

"Those to whom we say farewell, are welcomed by others."

"When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did -- in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car."

"These have not the hope to die."

"And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living."

"Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre."

"I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart."

"It's astonishing how important a man becomes when he dies."

"Embalm, v.: To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew. The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbor's lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility. We shall get him after awhile if we are spared, but in the meantime the violet and the rose are languishing for a nibble at his glutaeus maximus."

"On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero."

"We are deeply saddened by these deaths."

"We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead."

"Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion"

"He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it."

"Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection into eternal life"

"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly."