Quotes in Death

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

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

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.