It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
Man always dies before he is fully born.
Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
The death of what’s dead is the birth of what’s living.
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I’m on borrowed time.
Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.
I’m gonna live till I die.
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.
Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.
If nothing else, there’s comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
I hope to die in the saddle seat.
Death’s in the good-bye.
I’ve told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.
I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
