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Letter "D" » Death and dying
«I cannot stop thinking that I died before I was born and that at my death I will return to the same state»
«I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.»
«I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.»
Author: Johnny Carson
(Host)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
drinking, healthy, killed, rich food, Sex and, smoking
«I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death»
Author: Robert Fulghum
| About:
Belief,
Death and dying,
Dreams,
Experience,
Facts,
Grief,
History,
Hope,
Imagination,
Knowledge,
Laughter,
Love,
Myths
| Keywords:
cure, curing, facts, grief, history, imagination, laughter, myth, potent, powerful, stronger, The Cure, the Triumphs, triumphed, triumphing, triumphs
«I feel monotony and death to be almost the same»
«I cannot conceive such a Being could make such a Species as the human, merely to live and die on this earth»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Death and dying,
Living,
Mankind
| Keywords:
conceive, live-and-die, species
«I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.»
«I declared that the dead, who had already died, Are happier than the living, who are still alive»
«I flatly declare that a man fed on whisky and dead bodies cannot do the finest work of which he is capable»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
dead bodies, flatly, whiskies, whisky
«I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Death and dying,
Words
| Keywords:
agree, agreeing, defend, Say It, word
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