Our friend and we were invited aboard on a party of pleasure which is to last forever. His chair was ready first and he has gone before us. We could not all conveniently start together; and why should you and I be grieved at this since we are soon to follow and know where to find him.
Most people think life sucks and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks then you get cancer then your dog dies your wife leaves you the cancer goes into remission you get a new dog you get remarried you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty five years and you pay it back and then one day you have a massive stroke your whole right side is paralyzed you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then one day you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact they do so.
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
I have become death shatterer of worlds.
I dont feel good.
After Im dead Id rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable.
A single death is a tragedy a million deaths is a statistic.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Am I lightheaded because Im not dead or because Im still alive?
Death is nothing to us since when we are death has not come and when death has come we are not.
Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
I have lost friends some by death others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Death is a very dull dreary affair and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
Everything is drive-through. In California they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-Box.
For if he like a madman lived At least he like a wise one died.
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door.
It costs me never a stab nor squirm To tread by chance upon a worm. Aha my little dear I say Your clan will pay me back one day.
In the long run we are all dead.
Our friend and we were invited aboard on a party of pleasure which is to last forever. His chair was ready first and he has gone before us. We could not all conveniently start together; and why should you and I be grieved at this since we are soon to follow and know where to find him.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Im fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you because someones got to take care of all your details.
A dying man needs to die as a sleepy man needs to sleep and there comes a time when it is wrong as well as useless to resist.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales so is the other.
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle wise people are diligent.
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
Im not afraid of death; but dying scares the hell out of me.
I have never killed a man but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
While I thought that I was learning how to live I have been learning how to die.
When youre dead youre dead. Thats it.
Death is patiently making my mask as I sleep. Each morning I awake to discover in the corners of my eyes the small tears of his wax.
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
You can kill a man but you cant kill an idea.
He who doesnt fear death dies only once.
For what is it to die But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?
Death is the only inescapable unavoidable sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day were born.
You can be a king or a street sweeper but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper.
A man who wont die for something is not fit to live.
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But theres a difference for me you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
Most people think life sucks and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks then you get cancer then your dog dies your wife leaves you the cancer goes into remission you get a new dog you get remarried you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty five years and you pay it back and then one day you have a massive stroke your whole right side is paralyzed you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then one day you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.
We must love one another or die.
A mans dying is more the survivors affair than his own.
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
There are so many little dyings that it doesnt matter which of them is death.
He that lives to live forever never fears dying.