Joseph Cook Quotes

I’m ready to die. I hope it’s not too uncomfortable.

Let no man's deathbed be a futon.

I am dying, Egypt, dying.

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

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

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

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

Death is perfectly safe. (55)

O little one, My little one, Come with me, Your life is done. Forget the future, Forget the past. Life is over: Breathe your last.

I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Death is a fearful thing.

Every time we go to sleep, it's a rehearsal of the day when our eyes will ultimately close and we wake up on the side of eternity.

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

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

I wait for death and journalists.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

I am scared of death.

Death is a weird thing.

Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.

When Death doth close his tender dying eyes.

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.

Give death a better name or die trying.