Death Quotes - Page 12

• I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.

  Albert Einstein

  People, Want, Worship

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.96, Princeton University Press

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• Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Relief

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• The Fear of Death often proves Mortal.

  Joseph Addison

  Fear Of Death, Prove, Mortals

  Joseph Addison (1721). “Remarks on several parts of Italy , &c in the years 1701, 1702, 1703. The Tatler. By Isaac Bickerstaffe, esq. The Spectator, no.1-89”, p.458

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• I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

  Edith Sitwell

  Nuisance, Awful

  "The Last Years of a Rebel : A Memoir of Edith Sitwell". Book by Elizabeth Salter, 1967.

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• We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.

  William Cowper

  Dust, Turns, Dies

  William Cowper, Robert Southey, William Harvey (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations. With a Life of the Author”, p.83

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• Death is but a word to us. One's own experience alone can teach us the real meaning of the word. The sight of the dying does little. What one sees of them is merely what precedes death: dull unconsciousness is all we see. Whether this be so,--how and when the spirit wakes to life again,--this is what all wish to know, and what never can be known until it is experienced.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Real, Sight, Wish

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• Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. ... Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. Nothing disappears without a trace.

  Wernher von Braun

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Knowledge

  Wernher Von Braun (2007). “The Voice of Dr. Wernher Von Braun: An Anthology”, Collectors Guide Pub

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• I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

  Willa Cather

  Life, Spiritual, Eulogy

  Death Comes for the Archbishop bk. 9 (1927)

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• Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Sleep, Dying

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.592, Pearson Education

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• For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Sleep, Afterlife

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.

  John Muir

  Life, Beautiful, Nature

  John Muir (2015). “A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (With Original Drawings & Photographs): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Wilderness Studies”, p.43, e-artnow

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• Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Hero, Names, Effort

  Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

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• Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Sleep, Littles, Nightmare On Elm Street

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• I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

  Francis Bacon

  Fear, Believe, Men

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.636

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• To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Heart, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Humor, Experience

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• The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

  W. H. Auden

  Men, Gmos, Dying

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.148, DEBOLS!LLO

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• A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Suicide

  'Sebastian Melmoth' (1905) p. 12. Oscariana (1910) p. 8

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• There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "War Shrines" (1922)

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• Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Funny, Dying, Flats

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.414, Wordsworth Editions

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• I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Funny, Trying, Difficult

  The Sunday Times Interview, 1988.

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• They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

  Garrison Keillor

  Funny, Nice, People

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• Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'

  Bill Maher

  God, Suicide, Suicidal

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• Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

  Andy Warhol

  Dying, Details, Care

  Andy Warhol (1985). “America”, Harpercollins Childrens Books

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• Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wine, Mean, Dying

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