Ralphie May Quotes

My next book's title is going to be, 'I Have One Foot in the Grave and Another on a Banana Peel.'

I looked death in the eye - and it was a terrible experience.

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 mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

Destructive Death seizes young and old alike.

I lived for nearly seven years with the awareness that death was my everyday companion.

You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

I guess I'd like to get old and die, in that order.

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

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.

When you're young, you think life is forever, but it's finite. I'm 68, so even by the maddest measurements, I'm in the last bit of life.

I looked Death right in the face.

Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.

Fantastic days are what you wish upon those who have so few sunrises left, those whose lungs are so lesion-spangled with new cancer that they should be embracing as much life as they can. Time's a-wasting, go out and have yourself a fantastic day! Fantastic days are for goners.

Now that I'm older, a real source of interest is the ages of the dead, the number; the day is off to an optimistic start when the departed are all older than I.

Death is a monster; death is horrible.

Retiring is getting ready to die.

Sadly, I can't avoid being 75. Like many people of my age, we are all heading towards the grim reaper, and I am clinging on. I just to have to sharpen my fingernails a little so that I can hang on for longer!

We could keep his body going, but it was trying its hardest to die.

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

I'm not getting old, I'm getting dead.

I thought I was going to die when I was 39.