Quotes tagged ‘Death’

“A husband died. A few years later the wife died. As she got to heaven she saw her husband and ran up to him with tears in her eyes. "Darling, oh how I've missed you!" The husband extends his arms stopping her from embracing him and says, "Woah there woman. The contract was until death."”

— NotOCD2, reddit.com

“I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.”

— Thurgood Marshall, thurgoodmarshall.com

“Basically, dying alone is the ultimate indignity.”

— Zander Lehmann, Kiel, Nicole Burch, imdb.com

“At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end?”

— André Aciman, amazon.com

“Most of us can’t help but live as though we’ve got two lives to live, one is mockup and the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between. But there’s the only one, and before you know it, your heart is worn out, and, as for your body, there comes a point when no one l…”

— André Aciman, amazon.com

“He said, ‘I have to tell you that I’m very ill, and that I’m probably going to die.’ Utterly out of the blue, just like that. I felt that when he was saying that, for a brief second, he looked scared.”

— Johan Renck, amazon.com

“I'm not thinking about dying at all. I'm not wondering if it hurts or if I could have done more while I was alive or if anyone's gonna think about me after I'm gone, I I'm not wondering what it's like. One minute you are, and the next you just aren't.”

— Beth Szymkowski, Matthew V. Lewis, Zoe Parker, Meghan Rienks, imdb.com

“Blindly we dream of overcoming death through immortality, when all the time immortality is the most horrific of possible fates.”

— Jean Baudrillard, amazon.com

“In America, you see, you die twice—once when you grow old, and once when you actually die.”

— Karan Mahajan, amazon.com

“My heart hurts for those who have been stolen from our world”

— Rose McGowan, twitter.com

“It's like, if one of ’em dies, the other one wants to bench-press the casket.”

— Steve Koren, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com

“Our people are going to war to perpetuate slavery, but the war will be its death knell.”

— Sam Houston, amazon.co.uk

“I can't die with dignity. I have no dignity. I want to be the one person who doesn't die with dignity. I live my whole life in shame. Why should I die with dignity?”

— Larry David, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com

“According to most studies, people's number-one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two! Now, this means to the average person, if you have to go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.”

— Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com

“Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year has gone by and how little we've grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday a better self will emerge, with each flicker of the candles on the cake, we know it's not to be, that for the rest of our sad, wretched, pathetic lives, this is…”

— Peter Mehlman, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com

“Can you die from an odor? I mean, like if you were locked in a vomitorium for two weeks, could you actually die from the odor?”

— Bill Masters, Larry David, Elaine Benes, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, imdb.com

“You know how easy it is for dead people to travel? It's not like getting on a bus. One second. It's all mental.”

— Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com

“We don't understand death. And the proof of this is that we give dead people a pillow. And, uh, I mean, hey, you know. I think if you can't stretch out and get some solid rest at that point, I don't see how bedding accessories really make the difference. I mean, they got the guy in a suit with a pil…”

— Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com

“I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.”

— Chuck Yeager, todayinsci.com

“I had no idea people I knew could die.”

— Nancy Pimental, Debbie Gallagher, Emma Kenney, imdb.com