Spike Milligan Quotes

The fever called "living" Is conquer'd at last.

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.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

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

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

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

Life is an incurable disease.

I'm dying always.

Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.

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

I don't want to die.

Death is but an instant, life a long torment.

We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths.

Death must be easy cuz life is hard

Death straps me to the hospital bed, claws its way onto my chest and sits there.I didn't know it would hurt this much. I didn't know that everything good that's ever happened in my life would be emptied out by it.

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

As one gets older, this question of death, becomes more vexing and urgent.

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.

You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!

I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.

But death doesn't scare me. To know exactly when I might expect it, up close and in my face, would actually be a comfort. Because to tell the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape.

The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb

Life is the longest death in California.

We are all sure of two things, at least; we shall suffer and we shall all die.

Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are like the strainings of the Costive at stool.