Frederic Chopin Quotes

Destructive Death seizes young and old alike.

Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

Kill the body and the head will die.

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

Most of the time people feel okay. Probably it's because at the moment they're not actually dying.

Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.

All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated....As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

Always thank your nurse. Sometimes they're the only one between you and a hearse.

There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.

it's just another way to die

Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do. Go through his clothes and look for loose change.

It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death .

Atheists have an excellent longevity record because we have no place to go after we die, so we take good care of ourselves and our world while we are here.

A man says to the doctor: "What's the good news?" "You've got 24 hours to live." He says: "What's the bad news?" The doctor says: "We should have told you yesterday."

I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor.

Then love-devouring Death do what he dare.

Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.

Everybody dies. There's nothing you can do about it. Whether you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God.

Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed; but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association pleasing, and give probable hopes that they shall be disciplined by an easy separation...to die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly.

If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.

I was a hero, and a second afterwards it was all over. Casartelli was dead so what I had achieved was worth nothing.

To be diagnosed was the hardest thing because I didn't know what they were talking about... And the doctor said, Don't worry, in three months you'll know. So I went about my business and then, one day, it jumped me. I couldn't get up... Your muscles trick you; they did me.