My mother gave me the courage to pursue music as a career on her deathbed. She became very ill when I was 21. I didn't want her to worry about my future. I wanted her to know I'd finish my degree. But she pushed me to follow my dream, even if it wasn't the safe option.

Gregory Porter

Did you hear the one about the elderly Jew on his deathbed who sent for a priest, after declaring to his astonished relatives that 'I want to convert.' Asked why he would become a Catholic, after living all his life as a Jew, he answered: 'Better one of them should die than one of us.'

Alan King

Life Death You

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.

Anne Heche

Death Would Were

I'm what you call a deathbed Catholic.

Broderick Crawford

Death You T

I had a moment in the Library of Congress among the presidential papers. I opened a folder, and there was an envelope in it. The front of the envelope was facing the table, so I didn't know what was in it. I opened it and out spilled all this hair. I turned the envelop over and it says, 'Clipped from President Garfield's head on his deathbed.'

Candice Millard

Mom Men Death

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

Christopher Buckley

Hope Death Use

Everyone has golden years sparsely throughout their life, but good things happen and then good things disappear. But you'll always have those good times, and when you're on your deathbed you'll be able to look back on those times when you were with the girl of your dreams.

Daniel Caesar

Time Life Good

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

Danielle Berry

Time Death Computers

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

Danielle Schneider

Hope Death Wives

What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, 'I wish I'd made more money.' What they say is, 'I wish I'd spent more time with my family and done more for society or my community.'

David Rubenstein

Time Society Money

Let no man's deathbed be a futon.

Demetri Martin

Death Ton T

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

Dolly Parton

Death Art You

I want to be able to say on my deathbed that I reached a few people. That would be very nice, just to be able to say that.

Evelyn Glennie

Death Would Want

My mother gave me the courage to pursue music as a career on her deathbed. She became very ill when I was 21. I didn't want her to worry about my future. I wanted her to know I'd finish my degree. But she pushed me to follow my dream, even if it wasn't the safe option.

Gregory Porter

Music Future Death

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

Hugh Leonard

Death Writer Write

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.

Imelda May

Death Age Your

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.

Jacques Delors

Peace Mom Men

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.

John Lahr

Time Life Great

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

John Mellencamp

Time Death Version

I fell in love with the legend of Paul Robeson as a kid. My dad would tell me all these amazing stories about his life and, bizarrely, ended up singing to Robeson on his deathbed.

Johnny Flynn

Love Life Death

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.

Kesha

Love Death Car

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

Kristen Wiig

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.

Lesley-Anne Down

I learned a great lesson from my mother on her deathbed. She counseled me on the importance of taking care of myself so I wouldn't end up in an unhealthy body like she did.

Marie Osmond

I've always got my eye on my deathbed.

Martin Freeman

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.

Maxine Peake

When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.

Michael Huffington

The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live.

Morrie Schwartz

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

Nicholas Lea

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.'

Noma Dumezweni

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.

Patch Adams

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

Paul Tsongas

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.

Peter Landesman

It takes courage, of course, to step out of the fray, as it takes courage to do anything that's necessary, whether tending to a loved one on her deathbed or turning away from that sugarcoated doughnut.

Pico Iyer

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.

Pritam Singh

I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.

Randy Pausch

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

Reggie Miller

Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.

Stanislav Grof

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

Suze Orman

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.

Talulah Riley

When I am on my deathbed, I don't think I will be thinking about a nice pair of shoes I had or my beautiful house. I am going to be thinking about an evening I spent with somebody when I was twenty where I felt that I was just absolutely connected to them.

Tom Ford

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.

Viola Davis