J. P. Donleavy Quotes

One mistake followed the other, and the price was in human lives.

I want to be in a 'Final Destination' movie.

The sport itself is dangerous. Anything can happen.

You and your group of nerds fall into a pit and it's full of dynamite and you blow up. The End.

Sorry to hear about your Dad." He shrugged. "He was seventy, and we always told him fast food would kill him." "Heart attack?" "He was hit by a Pizza Express truck.

Both of us will die today, gunned down or smashed up or exploded in some terrible moment of fire and twisted metal, and when they go to bury us we'll be so melted together and entwined they won't be able to separate the bodies; pieces of him will go with me, and pieces of me will go with him.

madam," the man cried, leaping to the ground, "you're hurt!" "I'm dead, sir!" she replied. A few minutes later, they became engaged.

I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind.

He would make a lovely corpse.

So I all knew was you lost your limbs and you died from it. I was scared silly.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

I have an irrational fear that I'm going to have a gruesome and untimely death because so many wonderful things are happening to me.

It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man having come on board with compliments made the mishap most embarrassing.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

They are spinning and people are dying.

My next book's title is going to be, 'I Have One Foot in the Grave and Another on a Banana Peel.'

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

From the beginning when you go into this sport, you know how dangerous it is. It will never be a safe sport.

As a combat medic, I heard a lot of last words; I saw a lot of last breaths taken.

I once fell through a hole in the stage.

It'd be really neat if I wasn't a Darwin Award winner.

I don't want to die in a race car.

Everyone I know who skis is dead.

Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.

Shaw, we're going to die, aren't we?" Probably. Why?" Just wanted confirmation.