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This Grave contains all that was Mortal of a Young English Poet Who on his Death Bed in the Bitterness of his Heart at the Malicious Power of his Enemies Desired these words to be engraved on his Tomb Stone "Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water." -- John Keats
The death-bed of a day, how beautiful! -- Philip James Bailey
I never kissed my father until he was on his death bed. -- Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed. -- Hannah More
Believe me, those great death bed speeches are written ahead of time. -- Scott Simon
Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed... This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go. -- Oscar Wilde
It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not. -- Randy Pausch
Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.' -- Steven Wright
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.
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
The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed. -- William Butler Yeats
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
Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies. -- Alexander Pope
Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again falls asleep; we are on the death-bed. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Old April wanes, and her last dewy morn Her death-bed steeps in tears; to hail the May New blooming blossoms neath the sun are born, And all poor April's charms are swept away. -- John Clare
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
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime. -- Edgar Allan Poe
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
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
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
There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait that under the pillow of his death-bed there was found no 'Bible,' nor anything Egyptian, Pythagorean, or Platonic - but a book of Aristophanes. How could even Plato have endured life - a Greek life which he repudiated - without an Aristophanes! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
A death-bed's a detector of the heart. -- Edward Young
A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. -- Mary Antin
Applaud my friends, the comedy is over... [on his death bed] -- Ludwig van Beethoven
Thirst of wealth no quiet knows, But near the death-bed fierce grows. -- Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
If on thoughts of death we are fed,Thus, a coffin, became my bed. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
Death devours all lovely things; Lesbia with her sparrow Shares the darkness--presently Every bed is narrow. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
I thank God that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman. -- Belle Boyd
Those who hate to go to bed fear death; those who hate to get up fear life. -- W. H. Auden
But I will be, A bridegroom in my death, and run into't As to a lover's bed. -- William Shakespeare
I feel as if one would only discover on one's death bed what one ought to have lived for -- Bertrand Russell
I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
I hope to die with dignity and not be on my death bed pondering the afterlife wearing a diaper named Depends. -- Stanley Victor Paskavich
I'm the world's worst bearer of grudges. I'm sure I'll be bearing grudges and paying off old scores on my death-bed. -- Glenda Jackson
Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a death-bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all on. -- Laurence Sterne
When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born. -- Dee Hock
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
Sleep is a death, O make me try By sleeping, what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. -- Thomas Browne
On my death bed, I'm not going to say, 'God I wish I did more movies.' I'm perfectly happy I was present for the ones I did. -- Mike Myers
I like to think that when I fall, A rain-drop in Death's shoreless sea, This shelf of books along the wall, Beside my bed, will mourn for me. -- Robert W. Service
Sam: You know what I wish? Cassel: What? Sam: That someone would covert my bed into a robot that would fight other bed robots to the death for me. -- Holly Black
Every night death came, slowly, painfully, and every morning Maddox awoke in bed, knowing he'd have to die again later. That was his greatest curse and his eternal punishment. -- Gena Showalter
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
I think the idea is when you're on your death bed to say you did a lot of different, interesting things, not just that you have a more expensive lining in your coffin. -- Matt Frewer
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

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