Death Foretold

Life is a near-death experience. - George Carlin

Biography lends to death a new terror. - Oscar Wilde

It is not death that alarms me, but dying. - Michel De Montaigne

Death is that after which nothing is of interest. - Rozinov

Death and taxes are unsolved engineering problems. - Romana Machado

See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile. - Bill Haley

Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death. - Unknown

To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death. - Jacqueline Cochran

The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb. - German Proverb

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. - Gautama Siddharta

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H.H. Munro

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. - Albert Einstein

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death. - Guy de Maupassant

Was Uncle Oscar's death very untimely, you ask? Well, it was near lunch. - Archie Bunker

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. - Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none. - Mel Brooks

Our marriage vows: till death do us part, for better for worse, in secrets and in health. - Archie Bunker

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. - Robert Ingersoll

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death. - Betty Bender

You know that I'm at death's door. But the trouble is that I'm afraid to knock. - W Somerset Maugham

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to lay the game of life. - Jean Giraudoux

At the door of life, by the gate of breath, there are worse things waiting for men than death. - A.C. Swinburne The Triumph Of Time

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. - Norman Cousins

I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling. - Steve Irwin

You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot. - Phyllis Diller

When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die. - Ray Bradbury

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

Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts. - Brigitte Bardot

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

Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill you and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first. - Steve Irwin

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. - C S Lewis

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get. - Kevin Spacey

The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where one ends, and the other begins? - Edgar Alan Poe

Sir, your remarks are repugnant to me, and I disagree with your viewpoints. But I will defend to the death your right to express them. - Voltaire

'Till death do us part' doesn't sound so horrible. It only means about 10 or 15 years and not the eternity it used to mean. - Joy Behar

Grandfather: Death is nothing to be afraid of.
Renee: It's not death I'm afraid of.
Grandfather: What is it, then?
Renee: Life - Yvonne Wood