Gene Weingarten Quotes

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.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Death is the welcome cessation of idiocy.

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all - most of us, anyway - want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them.

Human life moves only in one direction - toward disease, damage, and death. The best you can hope for is to remain stagnant or, in certain cases, return to a previous condition when things weren't as bad as they've become for you.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

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.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering an image of death.

Death By A Thousand Cuts

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

You might as well enjoy the day - you never know when and how painfully it could all end.

Even if you live to be a ripe old age, you live long enough to see the people you love pass away.

She was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said, was that sometimes there was more beauty in this life than the world could bear.

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

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