quote: death

  • The graveyards are full of indispensable men. – Charles de Gaulle

  • To die will be an awfully big adventure. – J. M. Barrie

  • Die: To stop sinning suddenly. – Elbert Hubbard

  • Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. – A. Sachs

  • Anyone can stop a man’s life, but no-one his death, a thousand doors open onto it. – Seneca the Younger

  • It’s not that I’m afraid of death I just don’t want to be there when it happens. – Woody Allen

  • Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. – George Bernard Shaw

  • Never count a human dead until you’ve seen the body. And even then you can make a mistake. – Frank Herbert

  • How come we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. – Mark Twain

  • When looking into the face of impending doom, smile. If you have to die, go out with a grin. The Devil cannot abide to be mocked! – Unknown

  • The report of my death was an exaggeration. – Mark Twain

  • At my age I do what Mark Twain did. I get my daily paper, look at the obituaries page and if I’m not there I carry on as usual. – Patrick Moore