VIRTUAL DICTIONARY - FAMOUS QUOTES

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however "He has St. Vitus's dance," "He has nerve fever," "He has dropsy," "He has ague," since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.

Death is patiently making my mask as I sleep. Each morning I awake to discover in the corners of my eyes the small tears of his wax.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Alexander the Great Alexander the Great Butcher .. how much responsibility does Aristotle his teacher have?

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

You cannot live without lawyers, and certainly you cannot die without them.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Hell is paved with good Samaritans.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.