Subject: Death (Page 20)

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist
America Death Places

It must have been the coffee.

(1917 – 1979) Japanese-American actor
Last words

And now, I am officially dead.

(1822 – 1903) American teacher, lawyer, iron manufacturer & politician
Last words

They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance!

(1813 – 1864) American teacher & Union Army general in the Civil War
Death Government Military

I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author
Death

Sheldon: At my age, do you know how I’m statistically most likely to die?
Leonard: At the hands of your roommate?
Sheldon: An accident.
Leonard: That’s how I’m going to make it look.

(1975 – ) American actor
Death TV/Movie Quotes

Kill: To create a vacancy without nominating a successor.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Death Definitions Killing

I am just going outside. I may be some time.

(1880 – 1912) English Antarctic explorer
Last words

This is the first time authorities helped me escape prison.

(c.1914 – 1947) American convicted murderer
Last words

But the peasants… how do the peasants die?

(1828 – 1910) Russian writer
Last words

Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.

(1873 – 1956) English poet, short story writer & novelist
Last words

I was going to commit suicide the other day, but I must not have been serious because I brought a beach towel.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer
Death

I still live.

(1782 – 1852) American statesman, senator (Massachusetts) & writer
Last words

Give Death Panels a Chance

Death Signs

I'd just like to say I'm sailing with the Rock and I'll be back like Independence Day with Jesus, June 6, like the movie, big mothership and all. I'll be back.

(1956 – 2002) American serial killer
Last words

Secretary: It must be hard to lose your mother-in-law.

Field’s reply: Yes, it is, very hard… it’s almost impossible.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer
Death Relationships TV/Movie Quotes

In the city, a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.

(1672 – 1719) English essasyist, poet & politician
Death Entertainment Places

I’ll never die in my sleep… I don’t sleep that well.

(1889 – 1966) American humorist, writer, illustrator & cartoonist
Activities Death Sleep

Dying is no big deal, living is the trick.

(1905–1982) American sportswriter
Death Life

If I was on death row and given one last meal I would ask for a fortune cookie; “Come on ‘long prosperous life!’”

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian
Death Food/Drink

You be good. See you tomorrow. I love you.

African Grey Parrot (1976 – 2007) subject of a thirty-year experiment by animal psychologist Irene Pepperberg
Last words