Abe Lemons Quotes

In Khmer we have a saying that when one is both quite sick and old there remains only one thing, that you die.

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.

When I die, I want to be cremated with everybody.

I said to myself, 'I want to die decently'.

When I first got sick, they told me I had a year to live, and I was writing my memoir really fast. There were really weird things happening with my nervous system and my heart and stuff, and it didn't look like I was gonna make it, so I was writing really fast, and then I couldn't write anymore.

Of course, it's no fun getting old and getting sick and dying; we all know that's coming, and it's a bore.

A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

What a nasty act of cruelty, giving a dying man his last wish. Don't you realize he doesn't want it? His real wish is not to die.

A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.

And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered. What really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death.

I hope this means you'll quit asking me to kill you. It gives me indigestion.

Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.

To Harry Secombe: I hope you die first as I don't want you singing at my funeral.

The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb

And in bed, deep inside the building, are all the headaches that won't go away. The failed kidneys, the rashes, the ragged-edged moles, the lumps on the breast, the coughs that have turned nasty. In the Marie Curie Ward on the fourth floor are the kids with cancer. Their bodies secretly and slowly being consumed. And then there's the mortuary, where the dead lie in refrigerated drawers with name tags on their feet.

Don't get sick, and if you do get sick, die quickly.

Yes, she is." He looks at me, his face carved in pain. "She is dying, Sara. She will die, either tonight or tomorrow or maybe a year from now if we're really lucky. You heard what Dr. Chance said. Arsenic's not a cure. It just postpones what's coming." My eyes fill up with tears. "But I love her," I say, because that is reason enough.

The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die.

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

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

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

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore.

You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.

Life is an incurable disease.