Glass Coffins

My people, I die innocent! - Louis XVI

Gags die, humor doesn't. - Jack Benny

How can I die? I'm booked. - George Burns

If you give up your dreams, you die. - Flashdance

Love has no age, no limit; and no death. - John Galsworthy

It is not death but dying which is terrible. - Henry Fielding

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying - dead. - Oscar Wilde

The first step to eternal life is you have to die. - Chuck Palahniuk

Life and joy and beauty are better than dusty death. - Bertrand Russell

Often the test of courage is not to die, but to live. - Conte Vittorio Afieri

An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral. - Mary Deasy

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. - Joseph Heller

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

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Dream as you will live forever; live as you will die today. - Unknown

With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying. - Bette Davis

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

Life is a funny thing that happens to you on the way to the grave. - Quentin Crisp

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

Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees. - J.J. Furnas

Many people's tombstones should read: 'Died at 30. Buried at 60.' - Nicholas M Butler

Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world. - Mark Twain

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it. - J K Rowling

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. - Redd Foxx

It's a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing. - Andrew Young

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks

Death had to take him in his sleep, for if he was awake there'd have been a fight. - Theodore Roosevelt

If you live to be one hundred, you’ve got it made. Very few people die past that age. - George Burns

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. - Anais Nin

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who'd lost three husbands. - Kin Hubbard

Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be. - Lionel Barrymore

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death. - James F. Bymes

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist. - Edgar W Howe

If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it; that surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. - William Shakespeare

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. - Stephen V Benet

My mother reads the obituary page every day, but she could never understand how people always die in alphabetical order. - Frank Carson

I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked. - George Burns

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. - W H Auden

We do not attach any intrinsic value to the Cross; this would be sinful and idolatrous. Our veneration is referred to Him who died upon it. - James Gibbons

Dogs display reluctance and wrath
If you try to give them a bath;
They bury bones in hideaways
And half the time they trot sideaways. - Ogden Nash