Here is a list of quotes made by people about death, or on their deathbed. This may cause severe depression-but that's your fault.

"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry." -Mark Twain

"The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him." -Socrates

"I know death hath ten thousand several doors for men to take their exit." -John Webster

"A person doesn't die when he should but when he can." -Gabriel García Márquez

"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death." -Revelation 6:8

"Death is a Dialogue between, The Spirit and the Dust." -Emily Dickinson

"Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites, Hell threatens." -Edward Young

"The world is the mirror of myself dying." -Henry Miller

"One owes respect to the Living. To the Dead, one owes only Truth." -Voltaire

"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens." -Woody Allen

"Truth sits upon the lips of dying men." -Matthew Arnold

"Men fear death as children fear to go into the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other." -Francis Bacon

"The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living." -W. H. Auden

"A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go." -James Duffecy

"Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king." -Horace

"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die." -Leonardo DaVinci

"I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." -Winston Churchill

"Sleep. Those little slices of death. How I loathe them." -Edgar Allen Poe

"The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living." -Arlo Guthrie

"We are all dead men on leave." -Eugene Levine

"Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament." ~Paul De Man

"Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature." ~Marcus Aurellus Antonius

"It is nothing to die; it is frightful not to live." ~Victor Hugo

"And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death." ~Walt Whitman

"The only completely consistent people are the dead." ~Aldous Huxley

"I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones." ~Albert Einstein

"Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely." ~Albert Camus

"Death is feared as birth is forgotten." ~Doug Horton

"Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed." ~Joseph Bayly

"I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death." ~Francis Bacon

"Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live." ~Henry Van Dyke

"Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying." ~Jean Cocteau

"The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living." ~W. H. Auden

"This suspense is killing me, I hope it lasts." ~Willy Wonka

"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." ~Nietzsche

"I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead." ~Jimmy Buffett

"Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave." ~Bishop Hall

"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated." ~John Donne

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once." ~William Shakespeare

"Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable." ~Bhagavad Gita

"Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily as lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you." ~Woody Allen

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." ~George Bernard Shaw

"A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist." ~Steward Alsop

"Every man dies. Not every man truly lives." -Mel Gibson, "Braveheart"