Charles Dickens Quotes

Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

If death itself were to die, would it have a ghost, and would the ghost of death visit the dead in the guise of someone alive, if only to fright them from any temptation to return?

Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon.

If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.

I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

You were born with your legs apart. They'll send you to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin.

Marley was dead: to begin with.

Kat laughed. 'Who wants to live forever?' Kish put his hand up. 'For the record, I do.' Sin scowled at him. 'Then why do you irritate me so often?' Suicidal tendencies are inherent in my species?

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.

Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living.

Dead … might not be quiet at all.

Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet.

tiny: did someone die? me: yeah, i did. he smiles again at that. tiny: well, then... welcome to the afterlife.

Maybe before you die, it's your ghosts you see.

Sex and death. Two things that come but once in my lifetime, but at least after death you're not nauseous.

The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away.

Peace is a certificate you get in the grave.

I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics.

Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.

Although we may trust God's promises for life after death and the certainty of a heavenly home, we must still face the reality of death.

To the wizard death is merely a belief.

It's a small world. When you put it in a cemetery, it is.

I don't mean to imply that I'm afraid of Death. I'm just not ready to go out on a date with him.

Hi. It's Nikki. I'm not here right now because I'm dead.

I'm sure there isn't an after-life. If there were, Ivor Novello would have got a message to us.