Mary Roach Quotes

Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

I don't want to be the guy who sits on a front porch with a mint julep in his hand and rocks his life away.

Death is perfectly safe. (55)

The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event.

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

death - a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience.

Death is the end of every worldly pain.

Death is release, if you've lived all right.

Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.

Life means opportunity, and the thing men call death is the last wonderful, beautiful adventure.

Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer. Sleep is nothing but a counterfeit death. What happens in death we can picture in sleep. All our sufferings vanish in sleep. When death comes, all our mortal tortures cease; they cannot go beyond the portals of death.

Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

I'm quite lazy.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

I think it's a pretty good day if I can get through it without lifting a finger.

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.

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

Idling is important. Most people don't know how. They're afraid of it. This explains why they turn on the television set or pick up the newspaper. They think they have to be doing something.

Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished.

For the dead there are no more toils.

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

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.