Tag Archives: Quotes about Death

“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”

-Leonardo da Vinci
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“For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.”

-Johnny Carson
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“Nothing in life is certain but death and taxes.”

-Benjamin Franklin
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“It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.”

-Jonathan Swift
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“Death, in itself, is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.”

-John Dryden, from "Aureng-Zebe"
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“Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit, what a ride!'”

-Mavis Leyrer
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