Death

It takes so little to change everything. If you really thought about it, it would scare you to death.

—Sarah Dessen in The Moon and More

Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

—Walker Evans

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

—James Thurber

Nothing like a lot of exercise to make you realize you'd rather be lazy and dead sooner.

—Randy K. Milholland

In a sense, we are all crashing to our death from the top story of our birth to the flat stones of the churchyard and wondering with an immortal Alice in Wonderland at the patterns of the passing wall.

—Vladimir Nabokov

Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.

—Tom Robbins

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

—Redd Foxx

I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

—Stanislaw J. Lec

If you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. If everything is simply jake, then you're frightened of death.

—J. P. Donleavy

But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

—Benjamin Franklin

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

—George Bernard Shaw

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

—Ashley Montagu

Love is my religion—I could die for it.

—John Keats

Why not have your first baby at sixty, when your husband is already dead and your career is over? Then you can really devote yourself to it.

—Fran Lebowitz