Ogden Nash Quotes

We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.

People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they cry, they dance. They live, they love, and they die. And that matters.

We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.

The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.

Certainly in terms of my life - anybody's life - you go through death, childbirth and marriage, glory and defeat, and so on.

I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, to fear and to hope. The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death of all that is alive.

We all know our dates of birth but . . . every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it is the other date the death date.

Lawyers and physicians are an ill provision for any country.

Lawyers belong to the people by birth and interest, and to the aristocracy by habit and taste; they may be looked upon as the connecting link of the two great classes of society.

I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets people were embroiled in a thousand different matters, money problems, love problems, school problems. People were falling in love, getting married, going to drug rehab, learning how to ice-skate, getting bifocals, studying for exams, trying on clothes, getting their hair-cut and getting born. And in some houses people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered.

As I go about I see a lot of "coffin" men. They have room for themselves and nobody else.

Most people get suicide, I guess; most people, even if it's hidden deep down inside somewhere, can remember a time in their lives when they thought about whether they really wanted to wake up the next day. Wanting to die seems like it might be a part of being alive.

All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. And every chapter must be translated. God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. But God's hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for that library where every book shall live open to one another

I thought of inviting you to my other club but you know how it is. Lunching there is a useful way of reminding people that you're still alive, but the members will come up and congratulate you on the fact.

Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance

As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.

You know this moment in time Is all my life Every day is each day that's passed Every person alive is everyone's who's died

Aristocrats need not be rich, but they must be free, and in the modern world freedom grows rarer the more we prate about it.

There's birth, there's death, and in between there's maintenance.

It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share.

Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.

Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.

The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.