Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julius Rosenberg

This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be.

Charles de Secondat

A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.

Carson McCullers

Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.

Susan Jovanovic

The only way I could describe it -- the full effect -- is like having a death in the family. The entire family was ripped apart.

Anton Chekhov

When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.

Daniel Handler

It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.

Coco Chanel

I have only one curiosity left: death.

Clark Gable

Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying's as natural as living. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live.

Ricky Gervais

Someone asked me what three things I would save if my house was on fire. I said my cat, my salamander and one of the twins.

Argus Hamilton

Hostess Bakery plants shut down due to a workers' strike. It was split up. The State Department hired all the Twinkies, the Secret Service hired all the HoHos, the generals are sleeping with the Cupcakes and the voters sent all the Ding Dongs to Congress.

Barbara Kingsolver

Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.

Arthur Koestler

...the temptation, which consisted of a single word written on the cemetary of the defeated: Sleep.

Cardinal Richelieu

I do not sleep to let others sleep in the shade of my waking.

Cameron Diaz

Don't you know that when you sleep with someone, your body makes a promise whether you do or not.

Carter Burwell

I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Strangely, nothing makes me feel tired, fatigued, at all. I've gone days and nights without sleep, and still the mind is in such a positive space it just doesn't make you feel fatigued.

Anton Chekhov

You've only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I think: "Oh Lord, you've given us huge forests, infinite fields, and endless horizons, and we, living here, ought really to be giants.

Arianna Huffington

I have one piece of advice for you: sleep your way to the top.

Kurt Vonnegut

This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast.

Jan Egeland

In the Horn of Africa now, there are tens of thousands dying from the extreme vulnerability they are living in.

Bob Dylan

The one who is not being born is dying.

Ann Brashares

Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.

Albert Einstein

Once you stop learning, you start dying

Alfred Jarry

I am dying. Please ... bring me a toothpick.

Alexander Pope

Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

Alexander Pope

No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.

Don DeLillo

The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it might be better for you, Dear Reader, if you went back to the Living section of your newspaper because this is the dying section and you don't really want to be here.