Just Buried

Life is a near-death experience. - George Carlin

Biography lends to death a new terror. - Oscar Wilde

When I die, bury my balls next to my old bag. - Unknown

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews. - Katharine Hepburn

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. - Socrates

Death - the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening. - Walter Scott

Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway. - John Wayne

If we do not know about life, how can we know about death? - Confucius

Of all the escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. - H L Mencken

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. - Eartha Kitt

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. - Joseph Stalin

After your death, you will be what you were before your birth. - Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death. - Samuel Butler

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past. - Fidel Castro

Death twitches my ear. "Live," he says; "I am coming." - Virgil

Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death. - Pope John Paul II

"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death. - Taylor Swift

However much you may try to delay, you are fated to meet the same death as I did. - Tiberius Gracchus

Many people die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five. - Benjamin Franklin

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done easily lying down. - Woody Allen

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by loving. - Anais Nin

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of the other of us has to go. - Oscar Wilde

I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. - Voltaire

I'm a Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death. - Jack Kerouac

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come. - Rabindranath Tagore

The Irish don't know what they want and are prepared to fight to the death to get it. - Sidney Littlewood

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. - Yoda

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on. - Louise Erdrich

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom. - George Carlin

I'm a farm boy. If we need five people to haul in hay, we don't take one and just work them to death. - Lincoln Davis

Inherited wealth is a big handicap to happiness. It is as certain death to ambition as cocaine is to morality. - William K Vanderbilt

I was court-martialled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. - Brendan Behan

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. - Ernest Hemingway

If you think that praise is due, now's the time to show it, 'cause a man can't read his tombstone when he's dead. - Unknown

When my time on Earth is gone and my activities here are past, I want that they should bury me upside down so my critics can kiss my ass. - Bobby Knight

Clay. It's rain, dead leaves, dust, all my dead ancestors. Stones that have been ground into sand. Mud. The whole cycle of life and death. - Martine Vermeulen

Thirteen roadways lead through life
To thirteen doors of death,
Homeward from foolish fears and strife
We float on failing breath. - Tao