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

The repository contains 35 quotes in the category “Death.”
Showing quotes 21 through 35 in the category “Death.” Page 1 2.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it by not dying.

Woody Allen
1935 —     

One can survive everything nowadays except death.

Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900

Defeat is worse than death because you have to live with defeat.

Unknown

Once I realized how expensive funerals are, I began to exercise and watch my diet.

Thomas Sowell
1930 —     

If I could drop dead right now, I’d be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn
1882 — 1974

When you have solved all mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.

Khalil Gibran
1883 — 1931

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

Isaac Asimov
1920 — 1992

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Mark Twain
1835 — 1910

Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased, for when he dieth he shall carry nothing away; his glory shall not descend after him.

The Bible

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874 — 1965

Anyone can talk to the dead; getting an answer -- that’s the hard part.

Penn Jillette
1955 —     

For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson
1925 — 2005

If he’s so smart, how come he’s dead?

“The Simpsons”

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

Clarence Darrow
1857 — 1938

I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Mark Twain
1835 — 1910

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