Loudon Wainwright III Quotes

Let no man's deathbed be a futon.

I have died in so many spectacular ways, and I remember shooting them all, too. I imagine all those deaths will flash in front of me when I'm on my death bed, faced with the real thing.

Death is the final wake-up call.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I've - if it did occur - that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.

I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.

Have you ever thought about those last moments of your life? Nobody wants a long, lingering illness; nobody wants just that; but it would be nice if you could have a day or two where you know it's coming.

When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.

Come to think of it, Pasadena's as good a place to die as any.

I don't want to spend my last few whatever it is, months or years on this earth, giving speeches.

Maybe I haven't been tested, but I have no fear of death at all. I was with Allen Ginsberg during the last year of his life, and he called all his friends and said, 'I'm on my way out, and it's kind of exciting.' I see it as kind of exciting, too.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

I began to think my time had come, as the saying is.

Death is something to savour, and I hope to savour mine.

I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.

I am dying, Egypt, dying.

I turn to the 'Telegraph's' obituaries page with trepidation.

All I can say is, death is a part of life.

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

The last day of your life is still going to be a day.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

I hope to die in the saddle seat.

This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.