Deathbed Quotes

Deathbed Quote of the day

One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.

At the end of our life, we ought to be able to look back over it from our deathbed and know somehow the world is a better place because we lived, we loved, we were other-centered, other-focused.

No one ever went to their deathbed saying, 'You know, I wish I'd eaten more rice cakes.

I don't know anyone who said on their deathbed: 'Gee, I wish I'd spent more time at the office.'

Wherever your path takes you, may all your deathbed wishes come true, and may you celebrate each and every one of them many long years before your final breath.

Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches

I know I am dying, but my deathbed is a bed of roses. I have no thorns planted upon my dying pillow. Heaven is already begun!

I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies.

Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

True ahimsa should wear a smile even on a deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that we can befriend our opponents and win their love.

Never cosign a loan. Once you have cosigned, you cannot get out of it - even on your deathbed.

You don't see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.

The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live.

Now here's a good one: you're lying on your deathbed. You have one hour to live. Who is it, exactly, you have needed all these years to forgive?

I have yet to hear of anyone who, on his deathbed, wished he'd spent more time at the office.

Don't be on your deathbed someday, having squandered your one chance at life, full of regret because you pursued little distractions instead of big dreams.

Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.

No one on his deathbed ever said, "I wish I had spent more time on my business."

Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more prime weekend hours grocery shopping or walking in the woods with your kids?

We are all kitsch on our deathbeds.

If I was lying on my deathbed and I had kept this secret and never ever did anything about it, I would be lying there saying, 'You just blew your entire life.'

The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.

A famous actor, Edmund Kean, on his deathbed, was reported to have said, "Dying is easy. Comedy is hard."

Let no man's deathbed be a futon.

I've always got my eye on my deathbed.

W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained.

Many people don't realise until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away that no thing ever had anything to do with who they are.

Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.

Although the 'New York Times' annually declares that Broadway is on its deathbed, news of its demise is greatly exaggerated. There's a lot of life yet in the old tart.

He never admitted anything, even on his deathbed. He was a deluded liar. If it weren't for my father, I don't think I would be so open. So that's a huge blessing.

And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)

I'm what you call a deathbed Catholic.

Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.

Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tormentors upon our deathbed.

When I get to my deathbed, I don't want to take my last breath and say, Well, how glorious. I've left the world my acting credits. I won't even think that.

The kings of terrors, the last enemy, will never be able to breach the pearly gates and disturb the bliss of heaven! No more deathbed vigils or funerals. The hearse will have made its last journey.

Purpose is a man-made fiction. Nobody on their deathbed gets a plaque that says "he focused on only one thing for his entire life!" Those are counterfeit thoughts in a counterfeit society.

Seeking support from friends and and family is like having people gathered around at your deathbed. It's nice, but when the ship sails, all they can do is stand on the dock waving goodbye.

Shuffling really isn't something you should be doing on your deathbed.

When I'm on my deathbed, I'll hopefully be able to count more friends than parts that I had.

On their deathbed men will speak true, they say.

Eventually, I would love to be on my deathbed and looked at as an icon. Right now I'm still at the baby stages of my career. But that is the goal.

When you're on your deathbed you probably aren't counting the movies you've made.

Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie, And young affection gapes to be his heir; That fair for which love groan'd for and would die, With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair.

America is on her deathbed.

I learned a great lesson from my mother on her deathbed. She counseled me on the importance of taking care of myself so I wouldn't end up in an unhealthy body like she did.

I had a battle going on in my head: shall I just enjoy my life and then convert on my deathbed? But I felt I couldn't do that - it was now or never - so I took a step of faith and became a Christian.

I do seem to favor a deathbed confession as the occasion for my dramatic monologues.

[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.