Charles Dickens Quotes

Only in death will I relinquish my belts.

Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest.

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.

I hope that I'll keep being creative until they throw dirt on me.

a man who builds a house never really dies.

Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.

If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up.

I called my book 'When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead' because that's the truth. I will keep talking until the big hand comes down from Heaven. But I am a spiritual man and I believe that even that does not have to be the end.

Behind every citizen lies a graveyard.

I shall be active and vigorous even from the tomb.

Legacy is something you talk about when you're dead - and I'm not dead yet.

When I'm 100 years old, if I make it that long, when I die, probably the first tag line will be John McCain's daughter, and I'm so proud of him and proud of my family's legacy and our life, so I don't have a problem with it.

The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny.

A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.

Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.

. . . my bones they'll burn or bury. It'll be my death.

When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do not regret the shell, but remember the man. Remember the father.

I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave - thank God for the quiet grave

I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.

There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.

The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that it will survive me. It is not an ambition of immortality; it is fundamental. I leave here a bit of paper, I leave, I die; it is impossible to exit this structure; it is the unchanging form of my life. Every time I let something go, I live my death in writing.

I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. I'll be around a long time. A thousand years from now, a whole township of my offspring will be biting sour apples in the gumwood shade.