Top 124 Deathbed Quotes & Sayings

W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained.

Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.

Shuffling really isn't something you should be doing on your deathbed.

I will go down on my deathbed telling my kids to find songs like 'Don't Take the Girl.'

No one ever went to their deathbed saying, 'You know, I wish I'd eaten more rice cakes.

A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.

I do seem to favor a deathbed confession as the occasion for my dramatic monologues.

Salvador Dali, lying on his deathbed in a stupor, is said to have been fed thousands of sheets of blank paper to sign for fake lithographs.

Although the 'New York Times' annually declares that Broadway is on its deathbed, news of its demise is greatly exaggerated. There's a lot of life yet in the old tart.

Many people don't realise until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away that no thing ever had anything to do with who they are.

On their deathbed men will speak true, they say.

He never admitted anything, even on his deathbed. He was a deluded liar. If it weren't for my father, I don't think I would be so open. So that's a huge blessing.

My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist party. It may be that on my deathbed, I will come to regret my decision, but for the moment, I live at peace with it.

I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive.

When I'm on my deathbed, I'll hopefully be able to count more friends than parts that I had.

Whoever we are, we have to carve something out of our lives. I would like to be on my deathbed going, 'I've enjoyed that. I went through the rollercoaster of it, but I've appreciated it.'

When I get to my deathbed, I don't want to take my last breath and say, Well, how glorious. I've left the world my acting credits. I won't even think that.

To do life right, you have to feel like you're growing up until the day you die. The thing I'm proudest of is that I have stayed curious. I have every intention, when I'm on my deathbed, of saying, "Oh, my God - I get it!"

Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.

Now here's a good one: you're lying on your deathbed. You have one hour to live. Who is it, exactly, you have needed all these years to forgive?

If I was lying on my deathbed and I had kept this secret and never ever did anything about it, I would be lying there saying, 'You just blew your entire life.'

When you're on your deathbed, you probably aren't counting the movies you've made.

Let no man's deathbed be a futon.

When you're on your deathbed you probably aren't counting the movies you've made.

Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more prime weekend hours grocery shopping or walking in the woods with your kids?

A famous actor, Edmund Kean, on his deathbed, was reported to have said, "Dying is easy. Comedy is hard."

There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.

[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

True ahimsa should wear a smile even on a deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that we can befriend our opponents and win their love.

I need a long and lingering death to make sure that I have time to have a deathbed conversion.

Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.

You want to go to your deathbed saying, 'I didn't sell out.' But it's a tough business to keep to what you believe in and get through and do well.

I don't know anyone who said on their deathbed: 'Gee, I wish I'd spent more time at the office.'

No one on his deathbed ever said, "I wish I had spent more time on my business."

Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list.

Eventually, I would love to be on my deathbed and looked at as an icon. Right now I'm still at the baby stages of my career. But that is the goal.

One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.

When you see a parent pass, and you literally are there, and you're sitting at that deathbed, man, and you have to tell them to go, it defines life for what it really is.

I had a battle going on in my head: shall I just enjoy my life and then convert on my deathbed? But I felt I couldn't do that - it was now or never - so I took a step of faith and became a Christian.

Don't be on your deathbed someday, having squandered your one chance at life, full of regret because you pursued little distractions instead of big dreams.

I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.

I'm what you call a deathbed Catholic.

America is on her deathbed.

I've always got my eye on my deathbed.

Never cosign a loan. Once you have cosigned, you cannot get out of it - even on your deathbed.

Other teams fear me so much, just my being out there. I could even be playing on my deathbed, and I'd worry them.

Don't lie - when you are 105 years of age - on your deathbed, thinking, 'I should have done a few things!' I would like to think I tried as much as I could.

That's how I hope to die: on my deathbed, watching 'Real Housewives of the Moon.'

I know I am dying, but my deathbed is a bed of roses. I have no thorns planted upon my dying pillow. Heaven is already begun!

I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies.

And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)

No one on his deathbed ever said, I wish I had spent more time on my business.

Seeking support from friends and and family is like having people gathered around at your deathbed. It's nice, but when the ship sails, all they can do is stand on the dock waving goodbye.

A lack of desire is something I've never experienced. I'd have to be on my deathbed before I stopped wanting-- no, never mind, I was on my deathbed in the not-too-distant past, and even then I had the devil's own itch for my wife." -Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent

You don't see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

Live a full life, an honest life so that on your deathbed, you can tell yourself that you did the best you could, in the circumstances that were presented to you.

I have yet to hear of anyone who, on his deathbed, wished he'd spent more time at the office.

I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.