Samuel Butler Death Quotations

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.

If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?

Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.