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Quotations by Subject: Death
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Showing quotations 61 to 86 of 86 quotations in our collections

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 10-20-09
Death likes it when you play hard to get.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 09-20-12
I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 11-29-2006
I've accepted that I'm not going to die of natural causes, [but] getting killed 'cuz you're naturally a dick seems like natural causes to me.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, Natural Causes, 06-07-13
The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.: Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Grosse Pointe 48230, 1993
As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.: Rodney Yee
I know death is coming, and I do not fear it. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting.: Roger Ebert (1942 - 2013), People Magazine, 09-19-11
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Electra
When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.: Stephanie Klein, Moose, 2008
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
I couldn’t kill myself, couldn’t let go like so many others had. I wonder if in their last moments they’d changed their minds, but there was no boulder to grab on to.: Suzanne Young, The Program. 2013
The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, 1967
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)
The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.: William Goldman, "The Princess Bride"
Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Cymbeline, Act III, sc. 4
Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV, sc. 15
So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Julius Caesar, Act I, sc. 3
There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV, sc. 14
Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.: Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?: Woody Allen (1935 - )

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