Adrienne Rich Quotes

I think some people do want to die, and they will get a disease. There are people who know their lives are so troubled, and their bodies are getting them out of here.

Whole families used to starve in their cabins without their plight being discovered until the stench of their decaying corpses attracted notice.

Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful, and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do.

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

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

A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.

This has been harder for my friends. I know I'm going to die.

One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet.

Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.

They that die by famine die by inches.

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

I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.

People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.

It's fashionable to speak about vulnerable populations in medicine and public policy, but it's harder to find a more vulnerable population than those who are dying.

If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.

People may have to die in the country and die through starvation.

We don’t have a right to die; we have a duty to die.

Several million ordinary folk were killed and several hundred thousand starved to death; none of my acquaintances died of hunger.

What can he do who lacks the necessary work, if he comes to be unemployed? He has nothing but to let himself die of hunger. Then a few phrases of pity will thrown on his cadaver.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering an image of death.

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

What you should worry about is how you suffer here on this planet. You do not worry about suffering after you make the exit.

No one should die when they're 50.

We all live in this little bubble that we just expect to live forever and I think those of us that have been with people battling cancer, you realise, actually, this surrounds us everywhere we go.

There's worse things in life than death.