Shan Sa Quotes

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.

Does it hurt?" The childish question had escaped Harry's lips before he could stop it. "Dying? Not at all," said Sirius. "Quicker and easier than falling asleep.

Dying is not easy. It's a very hard transition.

This has been harder for my friends. I know I'm going to die.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

I'm dying always.

I think some people do want to die, and they will get a disease. There are people who know their lives are so troubled, and their bodies are getting them out of here.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Dying is a tough way to make a living.

What you should worry about is how you suffer here on this planet. You do not worry about suffering after you make the exit.

I wrote a song called 'Here on Earth,' and the hook is, 'There's no answers here on earth.' Basically, searching for the 'why' when someone passes away, and I feel really fortunate that my dad lived as long as he did. But no matter what happens or how it happens, it's certainly a stinker.

I don't dwell on it. But I guess everybody hopes that they go in their sleep and that it won't be long and painful.

You don't get dead and there not be consequences.

Ah, if he could only die temporarily!

We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths.

You never really feel somebody's suffering. You only feel their death.

February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green shoots two months hence seems preposterous, the ground hard and cold, the snow dirty, the winter hateful, hanging on too long.

You better get busy living, because dying's a pain in the ass.

For the living, death is thievery.

We were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes.

I have a natural tendency to feel well about the world, I suppose, one way or another. But then there is the problem of pain. There are things like [Abraham] Lincoln's beloved little boy dying.

Imagine an iron house without windows, absolutely indestructible, with many people fast asleep inside who will soon die of suffocation. But you know since they will die in their sleep, they will not feel the pain of death. Now if you cry aloud to wake a few of the lighter sleepers, making those unfortunate few suffer the agony of irrevocable death, do you think you are doing them a good turn?

Meriwether Lewis's last words were, 'I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.' I don't doubt that it is, but it cannot be much harder than being left behind.