Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.
Magdalena Abakanowicz
Friends are born, not made.
Henry Adams
Was she old? When they lit all the candles on her birthday cake, six people were overcome with the heat.
Fred Allen
I recently turned sixty. Practically a third of my life is over.
Woody Allen
We're born and then we die, what will you do in the meantime?
Anonymous
Happy Birthday, Johnny,
Live beyond your income,
Travel for enjoyment,
Follow your own nose.
W. H. Auden
For man's greatest crime is to have been born.
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
There's a sucker born every minute.
P. T. Barnum
You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a
thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
J. M. Barrie
My mother groan'd, my father wept,
Into the dangerous world I leapt;
Helpless, naked, piping loud,
Like a fiend hid in a cloud.
William Blake
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you get un-birthday presents ... And only one for birthday presents, you know.
Lewis Carroll
For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected
to contact with dangerous chemicals from the moment of conception until death.
Rachel Carson
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
Nicolas Chamfort
Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines
he wrote a poem
And he called it Chops
because that was the name of his dog
And that's what it was all about
And his teacher gave him an A
and a gold star
And his mother hung it on the kitchen door
and read it to his aunts
That was the year Father Tracy
took all the kids to the zoo
And he let them sing on the bus
And his little sister was born
with tiny toenails and no hair
And his mother and father kissed a lot
And the girl around the corner sent him a
Valentine signed with a row of X's
and he had to ask his father what the X's meant
And his father always tucked him in bed at night
And was always there to do it
Once on a piece of white paper with blue lines
he wrote a poem
And he called it Autumn
because that was the name of the season
And that's what it was all about
And his teacher gave him an A
and asked him to write more clearly
And his mother never hung it on the kitchen door
because of its new paint
And the kids told him
that Father Tracy smoked cigars
And left butts on the pews
And sometimes they would burn holes
That was the year his sister got glasses
with thick lenses and black frames
And the girl around the corner laughed
when he asked her to go see Santa Claus
And the kids told him why
his mother and father kissed a lot
And his father never tucked him in bed at night
And his father got mad
when he cried for him to do it.
Once on a paper torn from his notebook
he wrote a poem
And he called it Innocence: A Question
because that was the question about his girl
And that's what it was all about
And his professor gave him an A
and a strange steady look
And his mother never hung it on the kitchen door
because he never showed her
That was the year that Father Tracy died
And he forgot how the end
of the Apostle's Creed went
And he caught his sister
making out on the back porch
And his mother and father never kissed
or even talked
And the girl around the corner
wore too much makeup
That made him cough when he kissed her
but he kissed her anyway
because that was the thing to do
And at three a.m. he tucked himself into bed
his father snoring soundly
That's why on the back of a brown paper bag
he tried another poem
And he called it Absolutely Nothing
Because that's what it was really all about
And he gave himself an A
and a slash on each damned wrist
And he hung it on the bathroom door
because this time he didn't think
he could reach the kitchen.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves
will eat you; if you go left, you'll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you'll eat yourself.
Anton Chekhov
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
Winston Churchill
People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.
City of Glass
Cassandra Clare
A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.
Frank Howard Clark
Through a dull tract of woe, of dread,
The toiling year has pass'd and fled:
And, lo! in sad and pensive strain,
I sing my birth-day date again.
George Crabbe
We are all born naked and young.
Robert J. Dainard
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries
Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
Charles Dickens
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas
imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
Albert Einstein
Birth, and copulation, and death.
That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks:
Birth, and copulation, and death.
I've been born, and once is enough.
T. S. Eliot
Man tell us our lives are free of danger. We stay at home. They go to war.
Rubbish. I'd rather face three assaults. In line of battle, than bear one child.
Euripides
A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up
expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
Jean de La Fontaine
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.
Erich Fromm
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They came through you but not from you
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
Khalil Gibran
I often think it's comical
How Nature always does contrive
That every boy and every gal
That's born into the world alive
Is either a little Liberal
Or else a little Conservative!
W. S. Gilbert
There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.
Edna Gladney
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
John Glenn
Good-morrow to the golden morning!
Good-morrow to the world's delight!
I've come to bless thy life's beginning,
That hath made my own so bright!
Thomas Hood
So mayst thou live, dear! many years,
In all the bliss that life endears,
Not without smiles, nor yet from tears
Too strictly kept:
When first thy infant littleness
I folded in my fond caress,
The greatest proof of happiness
Was this - I wept.
Thomas Hood
A million million spermatozoa,
All of them alive;
Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah
Dare hope to survive.
And among that billion minus one
Might have chanced to be
Shakespeare, another Newton, a new Donne -
But the One was Me.
Aldous Huxley
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
Florynce Kennedy
In the gradual desuetude of old observances, this custom of solemnizing our proper birth-day hath nearly passed away, or
is left to children, who reflect nothing at all about the matter, nor understand any thing in it beyond cake and orange.
Charles Lamb
Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.
C. S. Lewis
Maiden, when such a soul as thine is born, the morning-stars their ancient music make.
James Russell Lowell
The living are just the dead on holiday.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents, which started to happen to somebody else.
Don Marquis
In the dark womb where I began
My mother's life made me a man.
Through all the months of human birth
Her beauty fed my common earth.
I cannot see, nor breathe, nor stir,
But through the death of some of her.
John Masefield
Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.
Margaret Mitchell
Man should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
Montesquieu
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anaïs Nin
Better mankind born without mouths and stomachs than always to worry about money to buy, to shop, to fix, to cook, to wash, to clean.
Tillie Olsen
For I remember it is Easter morn,
And life and love and peace are all new born.
Alice Freeman Palmer
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
Boris Pasternak
I used to anticipate my childhood birthday parties as if each were an annual coronation. Like most kids, I
loved sitting at the head of the table with a crown on my head. In recent years, however, birthdays have been
more like medical check-ups - no fun at all but necessary if one intends to stay alive from year to year.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these,
Because my love is come to me.
Raise me a dais of silk and down;
Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
Carve it in doves and pomegranates,
And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.
Christina Rossetti
Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday
each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.
Hazel Scott
At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel,
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.
As You Like It
William Shakespeare
When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools:
King Lear
William Shakespeare
The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
George Bernard Shaw
For every year of life we light
A candle on your cake
To mark the simple sort of progress
Anyone can make,
And then, to test your nerve or give
A proper view of death,
You're asked to blow each light, each year,
Out with your own breath.
James Simmons
If men had to have babies they would only ever have one each.
Diana Spencer
I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty
both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
Laurence Sterne
May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift
There is a great difference between being born wise and only looking it.
Publilius Syrus
We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
Publilius Syrus
The more good I do, the more money has come in. You have to learn to give. You're not born to give. You're born selfish.
Ted Turner
I was born modest, but it didn't last.
Mark Twain
I was born on a day God was sick.
César Vallejo
A few yes men may be born, but mostly they are made. Fear is a great breeder of them.
William Wrigley
Set me as a seal upon thine
heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for
love is strong as death; jealousy
is cruel as the grave: the coals
thereof are coals of fire, which
hath a most vehement flame.
Song of Solomon 8:6, King James Version
Holy Bible
So in the simple blessing of a rainbow,
In the bevelled edge of a sunlit mirrow,
I have seen visible, Death's artifact
Like a soldier's ribbon on a tunic tacked.
Pathology of Colours
Dannie Abse
The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama.
Dannie Abse
The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.
Dean Acheson
I think the idea of art kills creativity.
Douglas Adams
I've been trying to... Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to
avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.
Douglas Adams
Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
Henry Adams
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
Woody Allen
It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen
We're born and then we die, what will you do in the meantime?
Anonymous
Life is a journey, but don't worry, you'll find a parking spot at the end.
Isaac Asimov
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Isaac Asimov
When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and
pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
Aupumut
Nothing, but death.
Jane Austen
For now. But if I ever decide you're useless, you are a dead man.
To be killed by you is to be desired more
than a life excluded from your service.
Bravo.
Her Imperial Viciousness laughed with genuine feeling. Bravo!
Seeing Redd
Frank Beddor
Only the previous day, Arch had found him in a spirit-dance corral, blistering
the creatures to the point of death, such was his need to touch and destroy.
Seeing Redd
Frank Beddor
There's no bad publicity except an obituary.
Brendan Behan
Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside
of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemetries.
Saul Bellow
Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't go to yours.
Yogi Berra
Surprise me!
When asked by his wife Carmen where he would like to be buried.
Yogi Berra
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Erma Bombeck
I am about to - or I am going to - die: either expression is correct.
Dominique Bouhours
The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.
Arthur Brisbane
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England.
Rupert Brooke
We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
Thomas Browne
We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to
speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
Jean de La Bruyère
Many people's tombstones should read, Died at 30. Buried at 60.
Nicholas Murray Butler
Money is dead men's bones and dead men's souls. The money that men make lives after them.
Samuel Butler (Author)
All tragedies are finish'd by death,
All comedies are ended by a marriage.
George Byron
Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
Albert Camus
Missionary life is simply a chance to die.
Amy Carmichael
Men who continue hoarding great sums all their lives, the proper use of which for the public ends would work good to
the community, should be made to feel that the community, in the form of the state, cannot thus be deprived of its proper
share. By taxing estates heavily at death the state marks its condemnation of the selfish millionaire's unworthy life.
Andrew Carnegie
The man who dies rich dies disgraced.
Andrew Carnegie
LIII.
What is the holiness of conversation? It is to master death.
Glass, Irony, and God
Anne Carson
For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected
to contact with dangerous chemicals from the moment of conception until death.
Rachel Carson
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Willa Cather
Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines
he wrote a poem
And he called it Chops
because that was the name of his dog
And that's what it was all about
And his teacher gave him an A
and a gold star
And his mother hung it on the kitchen door
and read it to his aunts
That was the year Father Tracy
took all the kids to the zoo
And he let them sing on the bus
And his little sister was born
with tiny toenails and no hair
And his mother and father kissed a lot
And the girl around the corner sent him a
Valentine signed with a row of X's
and he had to ask his father what the X's meant
And his father always tucked him in bed at night
And was always there to do it
Once on a piece of white paper with blue lines
he wrote a poem
And he called it Autumn
because that was the name of the season
And that's what it was all about
And his teacher gave him an A
and asked him to write more clearly
And his mother never hung it on the kitchen door
because of its new paint
And the kids told him
that Father Tracy smoked cigars
And left butts on the pews
And sometimes they would burn holes
That was the year his sister got glasses
with thick lenses and black frames
And the girl around the corner laughed
when he asked her to go see Santa Claus
And the kids told him why
his mother and father kissed a lot
And his father never tucked him in bed at night
And his father got mad
when he cried for him to do it.
Once on a paper torn from his notebook
he wrote a poem
And he called it Innocence: A Question
because that was the question about his girl
And that's what it was all about
And his professor gave him an A
and a strange steady look
And his mother never hung it on the kitchen door
because he never showed her
That was the year that Father Tracy died
And he forgot how the end
of the Apostle's Creed went
And he caught his sister
making out on the back porch
And his mother and father never kissed
or even talked
And the girl around the corner
wore too much makeup
That made him cough when he kissed her
but he kissed her anyway
because that was the thing to do
And at three a.m. he tucked himself into bed
his father snoring soundly
That's why on the back of a brown paper bag
he tried another poem
And he called it Absolutely Nothing
Because that's what it was really all about
And he gave himself an A
and a slash on each damned wrist
And he hung it on the bathroom door
because this time he didn't think
he could reach the kitchen.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too.
Anton Chekhov
Journalism largely consists in saying Lord Jones Dead
to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.
G. K. Chesterton
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
Maurice Chevalier
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is ready for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Winston Churchill
And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get
married...?
His voice tightened.
And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching.
City of Glass
Cassandra Clare
Is this the part where you say if I hurt her, you'll kill me?
No
Simon said,
If you hurt Clary she's quite capable of killing you herself. Possibly with a variety of weapons.
City of Glass
Cassandra Clare
There is no pretending,
Jace said with absolute clarity.
I love you, and I
will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.
City of Glass
Cassandra Clare
Swans sing before they die; 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The time I kill is killing me.
Mason Cooley
I have never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
Clarence Darrow
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
Charles Dickens
The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love, lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there
too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up, for ever, on my best affections. Deep affliction has but strengthened and refined them.
Charles Dickens
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
John Donne
Birth, and copulation, and death.
That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks:
Birth, and copulation, and death.
I've been born, and once is enough.
T. S. Eliot
How easy it is for a man to die rich, if he will but be contented to live miserable.
Henry Fielding
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying which is terrible.
Henry Fielding
I can't breathe.
Plea to police officer, Minneapolis, May 25, 2020.
George Floyd
If you would not be forgotten
As soon as you are dead and rotten,
Either write things worth reading,
Or do things worth the writing.
Benjamin Franklin
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin
Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine
mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
Betty Friedan
If I die a violent death as some fear and a few are plotting, I know the violence
will be in the thought and the action of the assassin, not in my dying.
Indira Gandhi
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.
Mahatma Gandhi
I can't breathe!
Eric Garner
Some die because they feel everything, others because they feel nothing. Some are fools because they suffer no regrets, and others because they do.
Baltasar Gracián
An illness in stages, a very long flight of steps that led assuredly to death, but whose every step represented a unique
apprenticeship. It was a disease that gave death time to live and its victims time to die, time to discover time, and in the end to discover life.
Hervé Guibert
Life is very insistent; and it always seems to be so when friends sadly leave us.
Alec Guinness
Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.
Doug Hall
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Preach! Write! Act! Do any thing, save to lie down and die!
Nathaniel Hawthorne
I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Patrick Henry
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me
and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Frank Herbert
Only the young die good.
Oliver Herford
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
Herodotus
Stages
As every flower fades and as all youth
Departs, so life at every stage,
So every virtue, so our grasp of truth,
Blooms in its day and may not last forever.
Since life may summon us at every age
Be ready, heart, for parting, new endeavor,
Be ready bravely and without remorse
To find new light that old ties cannot give.
In all beginnings dwells a magic force
For guarding us and helping us to live.
Serenely let us move to distant places
And let no sentiments of home detain us.
The Cosmic Spirit seeks not to restrain us
But lifts us stage by stage to wider spaces.
If we accept a home of our own making,
Familiar habit makes for indolence.
We must prepare for parting and leave-taking
Or else remain the slaves of permanence.
Even the hour of our death may send
Us speeding on to fresh and newer spaces,
And life may summon us to newer races.
So be it, heart: bid farewell without end.
The Glass Bead Game
Hermann Hesse
Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
Horace
Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught
in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.
Elbert Hubbard
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
Beauty for some provides escape,
Who gain a happiness in eyeing
The gorgeous buttocks of the ape
Or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
Aldous Huxley
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other
affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
Washington Irving
Don't study the idea to death with experts and committees. Get on with it and see if it works.
Kenneth Iverson
I would rather be dead in a ditch than ask the European Union for a delay in Brexit.
Remarks made at a police training center in Wakefield, England, September 5, 2019.
Boris Johnson
Greatness of name in the father oft-times helps not forth but over-whelms the son; they stand too near one
another, the shadow kills the growth. So much, that we see the grandchild come more and oftener to be heir.
Ben Jonson
When you're scared, you're still hanging on to life. When you're ready to die, you let it go. A sort of
emptying out occurs, a giving up on the world that seems oddly familiar even if you've never done it before.
Sebastian Junger
Now I have finished with all earthly business, and high time too. Yes, yes, my dear child, now comes death.
Franz Lehár
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the
stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a
sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in.
C. S. Lewis
Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.
C. S. Lewis
His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.
Abraham Lincoln
He who would make serious use of his life must always act as though he had a
long time to live and must schedule his time as though he were about to die.
Émile Littré
I've found that when it came to doing something I loved and fighting for it, things
worked out. If you're going to kill yourself to develop something, you've got to enjoy it.
Jeanine Lobell
I don't know any executive who ever thought about stress, although a lot of other people do.
No one ever dies of hard work. But a lot of people die once they retire from an active job.
Ian MacGregor
The living are just the dead on holiday.
Maurice Maeterlinck
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Maurice Maeterlinck
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
Marya Mannes
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
If you are not honest at all everybody hates you, and if you are absolutely honest you get martyred.
Don Marquis
In the dark womb where I began
My mother's life made me a man.
Through all the months of human birth
Her beauty fed my common earth.
I cannot see, nor breathe, nor stir,
But through the death of some of her.
John Masefield
I always wait for the Times each morning. I look at the obituary column and if I'm not in it, I go to work.
A. E. Matthews
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
H. L. Mencken
Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.
Margaret Mitchell
Nearly all men die of their medicines, and not of their illnesses.
Molière
Man should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
Montesquieu
I die the King's good servant, but God's first.
Thomas More
Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Beneath this slab
John Brown is stowed
He watched the ads
And not the road.
Ogden Nash
Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict and disease, not hard work.
David Ogilvy
Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.
Dorothy Parker
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.
William Penn
I mourn in grey, grey as the sleeted wind the bled shades of twilight, gunmetal, battleships, industrial paint.
Marge Piercy
I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore.
Katherine Anne Porter
Cured yesterday of my disease. I died last night of the physician.
Mathew Prior
You know it takes a year, a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing somebody. That's a true saying.
Annie Proulx
I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life.
Revealing that he had Alzheimer's disease.
Ronald Reagan
It's true hard work never killed anyone but I figure why take the chance?
Ronald Reagan
We are all Lakers today.
Remark to reporters after the death of Kobe Bryant, Orlando, Florida, January 26, 2020.
Doc Rivers
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
Will Rogers
One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments
spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Between us, love the buses at the door the long glass street two years, my death to yours my death upon your
lips my face becoming glass strong challenged time making me win immortal our street our river a deadly glass to
hold. Now they are feeding me into a steel mill furnace O love the stream of glass a stream of living fire.
The Book of the Dead
Muriel Rukeyser
I died as a mineral and became a plant,
I died as plant and rose to animal,
I died as animal and I was Man.
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
Rumi
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell
It's not a matter of life and death, it's more important than that!
Henry Russell Sanders
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
George Santayana
I am your wife, if you will marry me;
If not, I'll die your maid, To be your fellow
You may deny me, but I'll be your servant,
Whether you will or no.
The Tempest
William Shakespeare
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
for grief is proud and makes his owner stoop.
To me and to the state of my great grief
let kings assemble; for my grief's so great
that no supporter but the huge firm earth
Can hold it up:
King John
William Shakespeare
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
I can't stand whispering. Every time a doctor whispers in the hospital, next day there's a funeral.
Neil Simon
One evil in old age is that as your time is come you think every little illness is the
beginning of the end. When a man expects to be arrested every knock at the door is an alarm.
Sydney Smith
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going
or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
Muriel Spark
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
I shall be like that tree, I shall die at the top.
Jonathan Swift
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
Publilius Syrus
Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.
Publilius Syrus
The fear of death is more to be dreaded then fear itself.
Publilius Syrus
We die as often as we lose a friend.
Publilius Syrus
Don't go to sleep, so many people die there.
Mark Twain
I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.
Mark Twain
I take my only exercise acting as pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.
Mark Twain
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
Gore Vidal
We owe respect to the living; to the dead we owe only truth.
Voltaire
Every man dies, not every man really lives.
William Wallace
Beware of writing to me. I always answer ... My father spent the last 20 years of his life writing letters. If someone
thanked him for a wedding present, he thanked them for thanking him and there was no end to the exchange but death.
Evelyn Waugh
The Khomeini cry for the execution of Rushdie is
an infantile cry. From the beginning of time we have seen that. To murder the thinker does not murder the thought.
Arnold Wesker
England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.
Oscar Wilde
Mrs. Allonby: They say, Lady Hunstanton, that when good Americans die they go to Paris.
Lady Hunstanton: Indeed? And when bad Americans die, where do they go to?
Lord Illingworth: Oh, they go to America.
Oscar Wilde
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover, when it is too late, that the only thing one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde
Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease.
Oscar Wilde
Those whom the Gods hate die old.
Oscar Wilde
To lose one parent...may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde
Birth and Death
