14 Woody Allen Quotes on Death

Woody Allen quotes on death

18. It is impossible to experience one's own death objectively and still carry a tune.

24. Sex and death are two things that come but once in my lifetime, but at least after death you're not nauseous.

29. After all, there are worse things in life than death. If you've ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman, you know what I'm talking about.

30. The key is, to not think of death as an end, but as more of a very effective way to cut down on your expenses.

39. Boris: Nothingness. Non-existence. Black emptiness. Sonja: What did you say? Boris: Oh, I was just planning my future.

47. The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought, particularly for those who have bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held.

52. It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

73. Death is a state of non-being. That which is not, does not exist. Therefore death does not exist. Only truth exists. Truth and beauty. Each is interchangeable, but are aspects of themselves. Er, what specifically did they say they had in mind for me?

75. Agathon: But all that talk about death being the same as sleep. Socrates: Yes, the difference is that when you're dead and somebody yells, 'Everybody up, it's morning,' it's very hard to find your slippers.

120. I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.

125. I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.

131. Life is like a concentration camp... you can't leave without dying.

136. On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

144. Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?