Quotable Death

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1. Ever ready with a one-liner, Josef Stalin is famous for saying, "A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a ______." statistic matter of no importance front-page headline specialty of mine

2. An immortal playwright's words: "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." Anton Chekov William Shakespeare George Bernard Shaw Tennessee Williams

3. Which WWII statesman said: "I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."? Franklin Delano Roosevelt Winston Churchill Adolf Hitler Charles de Gaulle

4. Complete this quotation from Tennessee Williams: "Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably _____ operation." fatal gruesome unpleasant overwhelming

5. This quote is from the author of "Living, Loving and Learning". "Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, "Did you bring joy?" The second was, "Did you find joy?". Deepak Chopra Jiddu Krishnamurti Leo Buscaglia Dr. Phil McGraw

6. "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I _______ it." --Mark Twain refused to pay for approved of regretted missing had been waiting for

7. "We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so at the moment after death." This author's psychological horror stories, among them "Young Goodman Brown", have probably caused a great many troubled dreams. Edgar Allan Poe Nathaniel Hawthorne Stephen King Guy de Maupassant

8. "I am become Death, shatterer of worlds." Kubla Khan J. Robert Oppenheimer Adolf Hitler Harry Truman

9. "Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." This quote can be found attributed to both author Matthew Arnold (from his "Requiescat"), and which noted science fiction genius? Isaac Asimov Jules Verne H.G. Wells Arthur C. Clarke

10. Who or what is the source of this quote? "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference." Elie Wiesel Barney the Dinosaur The Bible, Corinthians Pope Pius XII

11. Did you read these lines while you were growing up? Who is the subject? "(She) could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait for death. Like a confiding child, she asked no questions, but left everything to God and nature, Father and Mother of us all, feeling sure that they, and they only, could teach and strengthen heart and spirit for this life and the life to come." Beth March Charlotte the Spider Anna Karenina Bambi's Mother

12. This author won the Nobel Prize for Literature and wrote India's national anthem, too. His quote is: "Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come." Mohandas K. Gandhi Jiddu Krishnamurti Rudyard Kipling Rabindranath Tagore

13. In William Shakespeare's "Hamlet", who says, "For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come"? Laertes, after killing Hamlet Ophelia, before committing suicide Hamlet, in his soliloquy Hamlet's father's ghost, about his own death

14. Here's some useful advice from the author of "Of Human Bondage". "Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it." Who penned this quote? Agatha Christie W. Somerset Maugham Robert Graves Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

15. My favorite: who said, "Sex and death: two things that happen once in my lifetime. But at least after death, you aren't nauseous."? Oscar Wilde Woody Allen Dorothy Parker Monica Lewinsky