Bill Hicks Quotes

When I was a teenager, I was in an iron-lung.

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.

Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and you're all gonna die and then you're gonna be dead for way longer than you're alive. Like that's mostly what you're ever gonna be. You're just dead people that didn't die yet.

AI systems will enable doctors to diagnose diseases and treat people better, so blocking that progress is probably one of the worst things you can do for making the world better.

We had the 60s sexual revolution, and now people are dying of AIDS.

Most people are not ready for death, theirs or anybody elses.

There are people in life, who show you how to live. There are people in life, who show you how to die.

Everybody dies; that's a fact. Sometimes it blindsides people. Sometimes people get a glimpse of the big picture and decide to cheat.

The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb

Life is a long agonized illness only curable by death.

Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them the basic comforts they most need.

There are no sick people in North Oxford. They are either dead or alive. It's sometimes difficult to tell the difference, that's all.

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

Don't go to sleep, so many people die there.

A stray dog, I might understand," she said. "But this? You are too softhearted." No, Mabry," Ravus said. "I am not." He looked in Val's direction. "I think she wants to die." Maybe you can help her after all," Mabry said. "You're good at helping people die.

Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying.

People is themselves when they are children, and not again till they know they'm dying.

There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.

Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.

Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.

If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died, the dream was over, you woke up. That's what people meant when they talked about going to heaven. It was like waking up.

it ultimately doesn't matter which disease gnaws away at the body - it looks the same. The flesh surrenders, grows exhausted, and the eyes ask why.

Dying ain't in people's plans, is it?

Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening. And their smiles are just politeness.

If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.