# Quotes about Death... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 14, 2016, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-about-death/749025 "2016-03-14T23:26:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-about-death/749025/1 "2016-03-14T23:26:32Z")
…but upbeat! My mom has been the executrix of her oldest sister’s finances, since she had to be homed. (Not Alzheimer’s. Senile dementia. They’re different, according to my mom who could probably give a seminar.) It’ been about four/five years. My aunt died early on 2-14. And my mom is trying to put together some sort of memorial service for this weekend. (Going back to Kentucky.) She has a meeting room. (Pictures. Candles. Maybe the ashes.) She has some ideas about what she’ll talk about. \*No one is my family is religious. Spiritual, sure. We were talking about it this weekend, and I mentioned one of my favorite things from Pterry’s Death speaking. Other person: Isn’t my life supposed to flash before my eyes? DEATH: IT DID. IT WAS CALLED YOUR LIFE. And my mom cracked up. “I want something to say like that!” And I don’t mean funny. But profound? \*And she does plan to say The Lord’s Prayer. It’s comforting. (Oh, and please don’t bother offering me condolences. What I knew of my aunt I didn’t care for.) ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-about-death/749025/2 "2016-03-14T23:39:21Z")
So come my friends, be not afraid; We are so lightly here It is in Love that we are made In Love we disappear. –Leonard Cohen, _A Thousand Kisses Deep_ Also, from Neil Gaiman’s _Sandman_ “But I did okay, didn’t I? I mean I got what, fifteen thousand years. That’s pretty good, isn’t it? I lived a pretty long time.” “You lived what anybody gets, Bernie. You got a lifetime. No more, no less. You got a lifetime.” ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-about-death/749025/3 "2016-03-14T23:47:52Z")
“I intend to live forever, or die trying.” – Groucho Marx ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-about-death/749025/4 "2016-03-15T01:06:04Z")
“Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming WOO HOO what a ride!” The above has been quoted in several ways, with slightly different wording. I think one of us Dopers has it as their signature. In it’s original form it has been attributed to Hunter S. Thompson. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-about-death/749025/5 "2016-03-15T05:42:34Z")
“I am not afraid of dying; I just don’t want to be anywhere near it when it happens.”–Woody Allen, I think ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-about-death/749025/6 "2016-03-15T06:28:37Z")
“Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.” – Edmund Gwenn [attributed] ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-about-death/749025/7 "2016-03-15T18:19:22Z")
Five days before his collapse, William Saroyan called the Associated Press to make this final statement for publication after his death: “Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what?” ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-about-death/749025/8 "2016-03-15T19:44:24Z")
It has been said that death sucks. Having never died I can’t say for sure one way or the other but, having seen several people who did, I can unequivocally say that, if true, they don’t seem to be enjoying it as much as one would think. – Me, just now. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-about-death/749025/9 "2016-03-15T20:01:02Z")
"There are things we don’t want to happen, but have to accept, Things we don’t want to know, but have to learn, And people we can’t live without, but have to let go." ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e47774/32.png) [@quiltguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-about-death/749025/10 "2016-03-15T20:35:12Z")
“If I can’t come back, I’m not goin’.” -My Great Aunt Minnie ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-about-death/749025/11 "2016-03-15T20:36:18Z")
[This video](http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xoihqw_wkrp-s03e04-the-baby_fun) 14:58 to 15:05 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-about-death/749025/12 "2016-03-15T21:50:19Z")
[http://www.katsandogz.com/ondeath.html](http://www.katsandogz.com/ondeath.html) Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. I plan to have this one on my memorial card thingie: Leonard Cohen, from Hallelujah: I’ll stand before the Lord of Song With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah My Mom’s had In a flash, at a trumpet crash, I am all at once what Christ is, since he was what I am, and This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, patch, matchwood, immortal diamond, Is immortal diamond. > **[That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the… | Poetry Foundation](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44397/that-nature-is-a-heraclitean-fire-and-of-the-comfort-of-the-resurrection)** > > Cloud-puffball, torn tufts, tossed pillows | flaunt forth, then chevy on an air- ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-about-death/749025/13 "2016-03-16T02:25:58Z")
Here is my favorite Here he lies where he long’d to be; Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill. ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-about-death/749025/14 "2016-03-16T03:58:43Z")
Thanks everyone! Some really good stuff here and I appreciate it! ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-about-death/749025/15 "2016-03-16T04:28:09Z")
_Glad did I live and glad do I die, and I lay me down with a right good will._ Robert Louis Stevenson, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Blackstock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c77e96/32.png) [@Blackstock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackstock)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-about-death/749025/16 "2016-03-16T04:33:36Z")
Remember, friends, as you pass by as you are now, so once was I, as I am now, so you must be prepare to die, and follow me. and A man doesn’t die of his sickness. He dies of his whole life. ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-about-death/749025/17 "2016-03-16T04:56:32Z")
“The center of every man’s existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.” - G. K. Chesterton ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-about-death/749025/18 "2016-03-16T06:48:17Z")
Being dead must be\* great\*. Nobody has ever come back. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-about-death/749025/19 "2016-03-16T13:16:38Z")
> [@Blackstock](#): > > Remember, friends, as you pass by > as you are now, so once was I, > as I am now, so you must be > prepare to die, and follow me. To follow you I’ll not consent until I know which way you went. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-about-death/749025/20 "2016-03-16T13:31:43Z")
“And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void in any heart so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!” ~~Charles Dickens~ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-about-death/749025.md?page=2)