Death Quotes - Page 40

• My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived in a mining community in Upstate New York and ran a boarding house for miners. She took care of an entire family and miners who lived in the house as well.

  Steve Carell

  New York, Husband, Grandma

  "Steve Carell: My family values". Interview with Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2013.

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• It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him.

  Donald Cargill

  Husband, Lying, Taken

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• I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

  Agatha Christie

  Waiting, Dying, Goes On

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

  Jean Cocteau

  Dying, News, Pieces

  "Visite". Discours du Grand Sommeil, 1920.

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• Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Nature, Swans, Should

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The ancient mariner. Christabel. Miscellaneous poems. Remorse. Zapolya”, p.148

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• We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?

  Noel Coward

  Suicide, Guarantees That, Afterlife

  Noel Coward (1965). “Three plays by Noel Coward: Blithe spirit, Hay fever [and] Private lives”

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• People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

  Denis Diderot

  Running, Hate, Feet

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

  John Dryden

  Body, Spirit, Persevere

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• The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Spiritual, Self Improvement

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• Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

  Tryon Edwards

  May, Bread, Moments

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1004, Ravenio Books

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• The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  People, Funeral, Reason

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• All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

  Germaine Greer

  Women, Independent, Survival

  Germaine Greer (1985). “Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility”

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• In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Life, Wisdom, Analysis

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Self, Goal, Dying

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Love, Heart, Enjoy Life

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “Mosses from an Old Manse (Annotated Edition)”, p.39, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

  William Hazlitt

  Country, Horse, Fighting

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.101

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• Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

  Martin Heidegger

  Truth, Philosophical, Men

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• When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Play, People

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• Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

  Georg Hermes

  Arrows, Dying, Lasts

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• A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Music, Winning, Memorial

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1859). “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table ...”, p.355

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• Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

  Sidney Hook

  Inspirational, Past, Dying

  Sidney Hook (2002). “Sidney Hook on Pragmatism, Democracy, and Freedom: The Essential Essays”, Pyr Books

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• My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

  Lee Iacocca

  Friendship, Cute, Relationship

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.137, Bantam

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• Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

  William Ralph Inge

  Grieving, Profound, Happy Love

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• Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

  Samuel Johnson

  Equality, Disease, Disease And Death

  Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Rambler”, p.257

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• Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

  Samuel Johnson

  Home, Night, Cities

  Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Poems of Dr. Samuel Johnson. To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author”, p.30

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