Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Category: Death.

The repository contains 35 quotes in the category “Death.”
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Live fast; die young; leave a good-looking corpse behind.

James Dean
1931 — 1955

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

Groucho Marx
1890 — 1977

I’m not afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Woody Allen
1935 —     

I’m dying with the aid of too many physicians.

King Alexander the Great
356 — 323 A.D.

I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.

Richard P. Feynman
1918 — 1988

Before being executed in Oklahoma's electric chair:

How about this for a headline for tomorrow’s paper? French fries.

James French
1936 — 1966

When you die, some people might be happy and some people might be sad. But one thing is for sure; someone will still have to pay taxes for your funeral.

Infoism

The only peace which lasts forever is the peace of death.

Greg Kovas

People die all the time. Why, you could wake up dead tomorrow!

“The Simpsons”

Giving his reasons for refusing to see a priest as he lay dying.:

I am curious to see what happens in the next world to one who dies unshriven.

Perugino
1450 — 1523

Death is nothing to be feared; it is mearly a stage of transition. But life without hope, that’s living hell.

“The X-Files”

If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.

Brooke Shields
1965 —     

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Mark Twain
1835 — 1910

Writing his own epitaph (which was not used):

The body of
B. Franklin, Printer
(Like the Cover of an Old book
Its Contents torn out
And Stript of its Lettering and Gilding)
Lies Here, Food for Worms.
But the Work shall not be Lost;
For it will (as he Believ’d) Appear Once More
In a New and More Elegant Edition
Revised and Corrected
By the Author.

Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790

Why build knowing destruction is inevitable, why yearn live knowing all things must die?

Franz Kafka
1883 — 1924

To live is to dream, to die is to awaken.

Unknown

It is not the pace of life that scares me, it is the sudden stop at the end.

Unknown

Guns are always the best method for private suicide. Drugs are too chancy. You might miscalculate the dosage and just have a good time.

P. J. O’Rourke
1947 —     

I never knew how someone dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world. But now I understand.

Mickey Mantle
1931 — 1995

To his wife who asked him where she should bury him if he were to die first:

Surprise me.

Yogi Berra
1925 —     

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