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Death Bed Quotes

Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed...
This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.
- Oscar Wilde

Applaud my friends, the comedy is over...
[on his death bed]
- Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

And will 'a not come again?
And will 'a not come again?
No, no, he is dead,
Go to thy death bed:
He will never come again.
- William Shakespeare

There are two words that you should use frequently in your youth: 'sorry' and 'thank-you'. Use the first one as often as possible, so that on your death bed all that you have to say to your friends is 'thank-you!'.
- Robin Jones Gunn

Once very near the end I said, 'If you can -- if it is allowed -- come to me when I too am on my death bed.' 'Allowed!' she said. 'Heaven would have a job to hold me; and as for Hell, I'd break it into bits.
- C S Lewis

I hope to die with dignity and not be on my death bed pondering the afterlife wearing a diaper named Depends.
- Stanley Victor Paskavich

Sendak is in search of what he calls a "yummy death". William Blake set the standard, jumping up from his death bed at the last minute to start singing. "A happy death," says Sendak. "It can be done." He lifts his eyebrows to two peaks. "If you're William Blake and totally crazy.
- Maurice Sendak

Fathers and Sons
Arkaday watching Katya's face as she accepts his marriage proposal:
Anyone who has never seen such tears in the eyes of a beloved one cannot fathom to what extent, all overcome with gratitude and shame, a human being can be happy on earth.
Bazarov on his death bed:
I am done for. I've fallen under the wheel. And it transpires that there was no point in thinking about the future. It's an old story, is death, but to every man it comes anew.
- Ivan Turgenev

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

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