“Most
people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.”
Bertrand Russell
“I
did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved
of it.2
Mark Twain
“The
graveyards are full of indispensable men.”
Charles de Gaulle
“I
am become death, shatterer of worlds.”
Robert J. Oppenheimer (quoting from the Bhagavadgita) after witnessing
the world’s first nuclear explosion.
“I
don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve
immortality through not dying.”
Woody Allen
“After
I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument
than why I have one.”
Cato the Elder (Marcus Porcius Cato. 234BC-149BC)
“He
would make a lovely corpse.
Rudyard Kipling
“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
“Always
go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to
yours.”
Yogi Berra
“In
the long run we are all dead.”
John Maynard Keynes
“If
you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make,
who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?”
Stephen Levine
“Any
coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain
in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed.
What kind of man would live where there is no daring? And is life so dear
that we should blame men for dying in adventure? Is there a better way
to die?”
Charles Lindbergh Jr.
“In
this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.”
Benjamin Franklin
Famous Last Words
“I
don’t feel good.”
Luther Burbank
“Now,
now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.”
Voltaire in response to a priest asking him to renounce Satan.
“Death
is one of the few things that can be done as easily 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
“I
think you're right, Wyatt. I can't see a god damn thing.”
Morgan Earp, American policeman, finally accepting his brothers
refusal to believe in life after death.
“Give
back everything to………………..”
Peter The Great, Tsar of Russia
“Crito,
I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?”
Last words of Socrates 
“Go
away... I'm alright.”
Last words of H. G. Wells
“Friends
applaud, the comedy is over.”
Last words of Ludwig von Beethoven (the comedy wasn't his life,
he was referring to the ministrations of a priest, who his family insisted
on letting in to perform the last rites for Beethoven, who was an atheist.)