Death Finality Quotes

Do not judge a politician until the coffin closes.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying.

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war.

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.

There's no repentance in the grave.

Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

If Death is your father, you don't ever have to worry about what part of his body the disease will strike next. If Death is your lover, you don't have to be afraid that he will ever leave you.

There are remedies for all things but death.

You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.

As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.

It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds. And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?

After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.

In a stage play, you kill the leads and they come out for a bow - in a movie, they don't come out for a bow, they're dead.

I never go to weddings. Waste of time. Person can get married a dozen times. Lots of folks do. Family like ours, know everybody in the state of Texas and around outside, why, you could spend your life going to weddings. But a funeral, that's different. You only die once.

The thing about death is it's so final, isn't it, really? As far as we know... Nobody has ever come back and told us about it.

Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.

After the first death, there is no other.

Death cancels all engagements.