Favorite Quotations
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Death
Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man
There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: The End. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.. The Independent, 1977 Death ends a life, but not a relationship. ~ Jack Lemmon Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods. ~ Socrates Death is nature's way of saying, Your table's ready. ~ Robin Williams Dying is a very simple thing. I’ve looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more.~ Ernest Hemingway Death is a graduation. When we’re taught all the things we came to teach, learned all the things we came to learn, then we’re allowed to graduate.~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Death is birthing into another realm. ~ Therese Schroeder-Sheker Death is what makes life an event. ~ Francis Ford Coppola Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat. (La mort est belle. Elle seule donne a l'amour son vrai climat.)~ Jean Anouilh I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. ~ Winston Churchill Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home. ~ Cicero, Tusculanae disputationes
"Afraid of death? Not at all. Be a great relief. Then I wouldn't have to talk to you." ~ Katharine Hepburn