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

  Paul Tsongas

  Time, Office, Wish

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• Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.

  Walter de La Mare

  Flower, Fruit, Too Late

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

  Louis XIV

  Imagine, Immortal, Last Words

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

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Bed, Comedy, My Friends

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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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• 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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• We Christians do not believe that Jesus Christ was the only one that ever rose from the dead. We believe that every death-bed is a resurrection; that from every grave the stone, is rolled away.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Jesus, Easter

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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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• Get your priorities straight. No one ever said on his death bed, 'Gee, if I'd only spent more time at the office.'

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Office, Priorities, Bed

  H. Jackson Brown Jr., Rochelle Pennington (2001). “Highlighted in Yellow: A Short Course In Living Wisely And Choosing Well”, p.197, Harper Collins

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• The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying. . . .

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Lying, Flower, Years

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”

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• Believe me, those great death bed speeches are written ahead of time.

  Scott Simon

  Believe, Bed, Speech

  Scott Simon (2015). “Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime”, p.109, Macmillan

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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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• I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.

  Stewart Udall

  Bed, Stories, Peace With God

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• Death, whether it regards ourselves or others, appears less terrible in war than at home. The cries of women and children, friends in anguish, a dark room, dim tapers, priests and physicians, are what affect us the most on the death-bed. Behold us already more than half dead and buried.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Death, Children, War

  Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1789). “Introduction to the Art of Thinking. Fourth edition, enlarged, etc”, p.46

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