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some morbidly cool quotes

To me tragedy is if I cut my finger...Comedy is if you walk into an open sewer and die.
— Mel Brooks (1926-)

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
— Woody Allen (1935-)

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
— Buddha (c. 563-483 BC?)

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
— Cato the Elder a.k.a Marcus Porcius Cato (234-149 BC)

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
— Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill (1874-1965)

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
— Sir Winston Churchill

When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.
— Sir Winston Churchill

Now now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
— Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats.
— Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956), Prejudices First Series

[He] is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death...
— Hector Hugh Munro a.k.a Saki (1870-1916), Beasts & Super-Beasts "The Feast of Nemesis"

I was court-martialed in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
— Brendan F. Behan (1923-1964)

I want to be all used up when I die.
— George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.
— Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), The Poet at the Breakfast-Table

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
— Will Rogers (1879-1935)

I am dying beyond my means.
— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

He would make a lovely corpse.
— Charles Dickens (1812-1870), Martin Chuzzlewit

The only completely consistent people are the dead.
— Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), Do What You Will: Essays

I'll sleep when I'm dead.
— Warren Zevon (1947-2003)

I'll moider da bum.
— heavyweight boxer Tony Galento (1910-1979), when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare

Ask her to wait a moment — I am almost done.
— Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) while working, when informed that his wife is dying

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
— Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

I don't feel good.
— the last words of Luther Burbank (1849-1926)

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
— the last words of Pancho Villa (1877-1923)

...[television] brought murder back into the home where it belongs.
— Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)

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

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
— Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
— George S. Patton Jr. (1885-1945)

...a man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
— Jesse Jackson (1941-)

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
— Thomas Fuller (1608-1661), English clergyman & historian

...worst of all, continual fear of danger and violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
— Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), Leviathan ch. 13

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
— François, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
— François, duc de La Rochefoucauld

I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
— Stephen B. Leacock (1869-1944)

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.
— William Penn (1644-1718)

All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.
— Edward Young (1683-1765), English poet

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
— W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) in Somerset and All the Maughams by Robin Maugham

We cannot put the face of a person on a stamp unless said person is deceased. My suggestion, therefore, is that you drop dead.
— J. Edward Day (1914-1996), U.S. Postmaster General

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
— Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825)

La mort nous acquitte de toutes nos obligations. [Death pays all debts.]
— Michel Eyquem de Montaigne-Delecroix (1533-1592), Essays

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.
— Charles Feidelson Jr., U.S. educator & critic

When I die, I'm taking New Year's Eve with me.
— Guy Lombardo (1902-1977)

On a long enough time line, everyone's survival rate drops to zero.
— Chuck Palahniuk (1962-), Fight Club

I morti non solo piu soli... [The dead are no longer lonely]
— The X-Files, "2Shy"

This is on me.
— what Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) wanted on her tombstone

Dying is a wild night and a new road.
— Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
— Proverbs 5:5 (KJV)

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit.
— Proverbs 1:12 (KJV)