Death Bed Quotes

• I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.

  Aleister Crowley

  Kissing, Boys, Lust

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography". Book by Aleister Crowley (Chapter 54), 1969.

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• I feel as if one would only discover on one's death-bed what one ought to have lived for, and realise too late that one's life has been wasted. Any passionate and courageous life seems good in itself, yet one feels that some element of delusion is involved in giving so much passion to any humanly attainable object. And so irony creeps into the very springs of one's being.

  Bertrand Russell

  Spring, Passion, Giving

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.232, Routledge

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• I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.

  Al Franken

  Office, Wish, Prison

  Al Franken (2002). “Oh, the Things I Know!”, p.15, Penguin

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• Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

  Alexander Pope

  Dying, Famous Last Words, Hundred

  To George, Lord Lyttelton, 15 May 1744, in Joseph Spence 'Anecdotes' (ed. J. Osborn, 1966) no. 637

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• Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.

  O. Henry

  Home, Dark, Light

  Quoted in Charles Alphonso Smith, O. Henry (1916)

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• Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.

  Walter de La Mare

  Flower, Fruit, Too Late

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• I wish I had spent more time at the office.

  Paul Tsongas

  Time, Office, Wish

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• I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Certain, Last Words, Difficulty

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• Why are you weeping ? Did you imagine that I was immortal ?

  Louis XIV

  Imagine, Immortal, Last Words

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• Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Two, Shadow Of Death, Valleys

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• We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

  Voltaire

  Death, Forgiveness, Nature

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French”, p.272

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• This is no time to make new enemies.

  Voltaire

  Life, Death, Insanity

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• A death-bed's a detector of the heart.

  Edward Young

  Heart, Bed

  Edward Young (1851). “Night thoughts on life, death and immortality: With a memoir of the author, a critical view of his writings, and explanatory notes”, p.137

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• There is one death bed repentance recorded in the Bible (the thief on the cross), so that no one despair, but there is ONLY one, so that no one will presume.

  Matthew Henry

  Bible, Despair, Bed

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• It is grace at the beginning, and grace at the end. So that when you and I come to lie upon our death beds, the one thing that should comfort and help and strengthen us there is the thing that helped us in the beginning. Not what we have been, not what we have done, but the Grace of God in Jesus Christ our Lord. The Christian life starts with grace, it must continue with grace, it ends with grace. Grace wondrous grace. By the grace of God I am what I am. Yet not I, but the Grace of God which was with me.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Christian, Jesus, Lying

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• The real power is love, that which empowers others, that which arouses action, that which no chain is able to hold back, for even on the Cross or on the death bed one is able to love. One does not need youthful beauty, nor recognition or approval, nor money or prestige. Let love simply bloom...and it is unstoppable.

  Pope Francis

  Real, Empowering, Bed

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• Everything’s been about the journey, I never really set out with goals for fighting; it’s been about the adventure along the way. When you’re on your death bed, it’s those stories, those little adventures that are going to be the things that you remember. It’s not so much getting there, but how you got there.

  Evan Tanner

  Adventure, Fighting, Journey

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• Cause at the end of the day, honestly, at the end of the day when you're in your death bed and that's it, I think it's the relationships you've had and the people that you've touched and the people that have touched you that matter.

  Julie Benz

  Thinking, People, The End Of The Day

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• And will he not come again? And will he not come again? No, no, he is dead. Go to thy deathbed. He never will come again.

  William Shakespeare

  Bed

  "Hamlet".

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• Applaud my friends, the comedy is over... [on his death bed]

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Bed, Comedy, My Friends

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• If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.

  Richard Wright

  Lying, Men, Bed

  Richard Wright (1991). “Works: Later works: Black boy (American hunger) ; The outsider”

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• The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!

  Philip James Bailey

  Beautiful, Sunset, Bed

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.551

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• Thirst of wealth no quiet knows, But near the death-bed fierce grows.

  Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

  Bed, Fierce, Quiet

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• The lights of Saxon England were going out, and in the gathering darkness a gentle, grey-beard prophet foretold the end. When on his death-bed Edward spoke of a time of evil that was coming upon the land his inspired mutterings struck terror into the hearers.

  Winston Churchill

  Light, Land, Evil

  Winston Churchill (1969). “History of the English Speaking Peoples: Based on the Text of 'A History of the English-speaking Peoples' by Sir Winston Churchill”

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• Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.

  James Anthony Froude

  Heart, Old Friends, Tears

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.34

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