Death Timing Quotes

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

The right time to die is never exactly now.

In the last 48 hours King Abdullah from Saudi Arabia passed away. I have a moral dilemma. The king passed away three or four days ago. Is it too soon to hit on Queen Latifah?

To die before one fears to die may be a boon.

Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying

Death keeps no calendar.

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.

Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

... to die on a kitchen floor at 7 o'clock in the morning while other people are frying eggs is not so rough unless it happens to you.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come

It's much better to go when you are still capable than wait until people say you're so doddery it's time you went.

Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!"

We all didn't come into to the world at the same time so it makes sense that we don't leave it at the same time.

May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer, or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!

What is there astonishing in the death of a mortal? But we are grieved at his dying before his time. Are we sure that this was not his time? We do not know how to pick and choose what is good for our souls, or how to fix the limits of the life of man.

For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.

Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.

If no one knows when a person is going to die, how can we say he died prematurely?

The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.

Death keepes no Calender.

Death should take me while I am in the mood.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

It's inevitable that you will die, so the only question is when. The great thrillers are the moments that play and tease with the question, "When will it be?"