Death Quotes

We are immortal until our work on earth is done.

I wandered over the land, and good people did not neglect me. After many years, I became old and white; I heard a great deal, many lies and falsehoods, but the longer I lived the more I understood that there were really no lies. Whatever doesn’t really happen is dreamed at night… No doubt the […]

I’m obsessed with ice cubes… Ice is very much like flowers. It just dies at a certain point. But you know what’s weird? You can bring it back to life. Just by freezing it. Ice, I worship it.

Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

We stand on a mountain pass in the midst of whirling snow and blinding mist, through which we get glimpses now and then of paths which may be deceptive. If we stand still we shall be frozen to death. If we take the wrong road we shall be dashed to pieces. We do not certainly […]

Because a fellow has failed once or twice, or a dozen times, you don’t want to set him down as a failure till he’s dead or loses his courage – and that’s the same thing.

Comedy is the main weapon we have against “The Horror.” With it we can strike a blow at death itself. Or, at least, poke a hole in the pretentious notion that there is something dignified about it.

A green Christmas makes a fat churchyard.

The boys throw rocks at the frogs in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.