"I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens." - Woody Allen

"The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you." - Woody Allen

"The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife. . . . Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held." - Woody Allen, Without Feathers

"There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network." - Guy Almes

"No hero is immortal till he dies." - W. H. Auden, A Short Ode to a Philologist

"Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other." - Francis Bacon, Essays

"It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other." - Francis Bacon, Essays

"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours." - Yogi Berra

"'Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?" - Bible, 1 Corinthians 15:55

"'For dust you are and to dust you will return.'" - Bible, Genesis 3:19

"I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death." - Bible, Revelation 6:8

"I am ready to meet my maker. Whether my maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter." - Sir Winston Churchill

"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living." - Cicero

"That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place." - Cicero

"It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible." - Henry Fielding, Amelia

"The goal of all life is death." - Sigmund Freud

"Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realisation of the possibility is quite a different thing." - Gurdjieff

"And I hear from the outgoing ship in the bay The song of the sailors in glee: So I think of the luminous footprints that bore The comfort o'er dark Galilee, And wait for the signal to go to the shore, To the ship that is waiting for me." - Bret Harte

"Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings." - Horace

"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." - Dolores Ibarruri

"Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." - Samuel Johnson, quoted in James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson

"The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins." - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

"Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient." - Henry Louis Mencken

"Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up." - Wilson Mizner

"One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa: with a blessing rather than in love." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"I am going to seek a great perhaps." - Franalcois Rabelais, reputed last words

"Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it." - Seneca, Phoenissae

"The report of my death was an exaggeration." - Mark Twain, cable from London to a New York newspaper

"To die will be an awfully big adventure." - JAMES M. BARRIE, Peter Pan

"For dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return." - BIBLE, Genesis 3:19

"And I looked, and behold, a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death." - BIBLE, Revelation 6:8

"O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" - BIBLE, I Corinthians 15:55

"The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying." - THOMAS BROWNE, Urn Burial

"Even throughout life, `tis death that makes life live,
Gives it whatever the significance."
- ROBERT BROWNING, The Ring and the Book

"Because I could not stop for Death,/ He kindly stopped for me -
The Carriage held but just Ourselves
And Immortality."
- EMILY DICKINSON, Because I could not stop for Death

"Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so,
For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me."
- JOHN DONNE, Holy Sonnets

"Death, in itself, is nothing; but we fear
To be we know not what, we know not where."
- JOHN DRYDEN, Aureng-Zebe

"A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own." - THOMAS MANN, The Magic Mountain

"The grave's a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace."
- ANDREW MARVELL, To His Coy Mistress

"Death has a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one." - PHILIP MASSINGER, A Very Young Woman

"Whom the gods love dies young." - MENANDER, Dis Exapaton

"It costs me never a stab nor squirm
To tread by chance upon a worm.
Aha, my little dear,
I say, Your clan will pay me back one day."
- DOROTHY PARKER, Thought for a Sunshiny Morning

"Dying
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well."
- SYLVIA PLATH, Lady Lazarus

"When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me."
- CHRISTINA ROSSETTI, Song

"Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die." - SAPPHO (fragment)

"I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring comes back with rustling shade
And apple blossoms fill the air."
- ALAN SEEGER, I Have a Rendezvous with Death

"Death is the veil which those who live call life;
They sleep, and it is lifted."
- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, Prometheus Unbound

"Here he lies where he long'd to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill."
- ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, Requiem

"Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea."
- ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, Crossing the Bar

"Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
- DYLAN THOMAS, Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night

"The good die first,
And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust
Burn to the socket."
- WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The Excursion

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying." - Allen, Woody (1937- )

"It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens." - Allen, Woody (1937- )

"Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him." - Barrymore, John (1882-1942) his last words

"The embodied one within the body of everyone, O Bharata, is ever undestroyable. Therefore you should not grieve for any being." - Bhagavad Gita ['The Lord's Song'] (250 B.C.-A.D. 250) Krishna to Arjuna

"You can't get out of life alive." - Brown, Les

"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." - Crowfoot [Blackfoot warrior and orator] (1821-1890) his last words 1890

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another." - France, Anatole

"The sunlight does not leave its marks on the grass. So we, too, pass silently." - George, Chief Dan

"Gentlemen may cry 'Peace! Peace!' but there is no peace... Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains & slavery?... I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" - Henry, Patrick at the Virginia Convention 23 Mar 1775

"Love is my religion--I could die for that." - Keats, John (1795-1821) in a letter to Fanny Brawne 13 Oct 1819

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter." - King Jr., Martin Luther (1929-1968)

"Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad." - Laing, R. D.

"I was born nude and I wish to be buried nude." - MacPherson, Elle [Supermodel] 1995

"If you're gonna go, go naked." - Maicki, Henry [Philosopher]

"If I had known that I was gonna live this long I'd have taken better care of myself." - Mantle, Mickey

"Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough." - Marx, Karl (1818-1883) his last words

"Life. Consider the alternative." - McLuhan, Marshall in 'War and Peace in the Global Village' 1968

"Life's a beach, then you die." - Popular T-shirt slogan

"DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH." - Pratchett, Terry (and Neil Gaiman) in 'Good Omens'

"Why yes, a bulletproof vest!" - Rodgers, James W. ( -1960) (American criminal) his final request before the firing squad

"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval." - Santayana, George (1863-1952)

"Immortality--a fate worse than death." - Shoaff, Edgar A.

"Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!" - Stratford, Dr. Mike [played by Matt Frewer] in 'Doctor, Doctor'

"When an old person dies, a library is lost." - Swann, Tommy

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and to see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." - Thoreau, Henry David in 'Walden', II, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

"The reports of my death are greatly exagerated." - Twain, Mark [pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)

"Brood about death and you hasten your demise." - Unknown

"I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don't have any clean laundry because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of their life?" - Unknown 15-Year Old

"My young brother asked me what happens after we die. I told him we get buried under a bunch of dirt and worms eat our bodies. I guess I should have told him the truth--that most of us go to hell and burn eternally--but I didn't want to upset him." - Unknown 10-Year Old

"I shall remain here [in this phenominal world] only as long as I shall not be released from the bonds of nescience. Then I shall reach my home." - Upanishads, The Aruni to Shvetaketu

"This is no time to make new enemies." - Voltaire (1694-1778) when asked on his deathbed to forswear Satan

"There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning." - Wilder, Thornton