As the authors of these 23 Amusing Quotes About The Nature and Inevitability of Death recognized, life is better with a little entertainment.  Enlist these quips to lessen the emotional burden of life’s heaviest load, the inevitability of death.

While nothing completely soothes the sorrow of loss or assuages the fear of one’s own mortality, a few well-chosen words from this collection of actors, writers, comedians, and other notable figures will have you breathing a sigh of relief that someone out there “gets it”. Life may seem absurd at times but it doesn’t have to be meaningless, and it certainly doesn’t have to be boring!

Peruse these 23 Amusing Quotes About The Nature and Inevitability of Death and hone your sense of existential humor, a remarkable tool to increase emotional resilience in challenging times.

1. “Life is hard. After all, it kills you.”

– Katharine Hepburn

2. “The meaning of life is that it stops.”

– Franz Kafka

3. “Death is nature’s way of saying, ‘Your table’s ready.'”

– Robin Williams

 
4. “Death is just nature’s way of telling you to slow down.”

– Dick Sharples

5. “Die, verb.: To stop sinning suddenly.”

– Elbert Hubbard

6. “Nothing in life is certain but death and taxes.”

– Benjamin Franklin

7. “We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.”

– Bill Hicks

8. “Birth and death are mandatory in life. Everything in between is complicated.”

– Unknown

9. “We’re all born free and then taxed to death.”

– Attributed to Christopher Titus

10. “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”

– Mark Twain

11. “The living are just the dead-on holiday.”

– Maurice Maeterlinck

12. “A person doesn’t die when he should, but when he can.”

– Gabriel Garcia Marquez

13. “People are never ‘dying’. They live and then they die. And dying is in a moment.”

– Mike DeStefano

14. “Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.”

– David Gerrold

15. “Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.”

– George Carlin

16. “We all have to die someday, if we live long enough.”

– Dave Farber

17. “Every tattoo is temporary, because we’re all slowly dying.”

– Unknown

18. “For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow…but phone calls taper off.”

– Johnny Carson

19. “Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.”

– J.J. Furnas

20. “Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.”

– E.E. Cummings

21. “Life itself is a disease with a very poor prognosis. It lingers on for years and invariably ends with death.” – Carl Jung

22. “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”

– Oscar Wilde

23. “There are three natural anesthetics: sleep, fainting, and death.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.