Art Carney Quotes

When anyone dies, it's sad.

Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.

I have a natural tendency to feel well about the world, I suppose, one way or another. But then there is the problem of pain. There are things like [Abraham] Lincoln's beloved little boy dying.

L'ide e qu'on mourra est plus cruelle que mourir, mais moins que l'ide e qu'un autre est mort. The idea of dying is worse than dying itself, but less cruel than the idea that another has died.

Your father has to die, better he dies in your arms.

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

Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

I wrote a song called 'Here on Earth,' and the hook is, 'There's no answers here on earth.' Basically, searching for the 'why' when someone passes away, and I feel really fortunate that my dad lived as long as he did. But no matter what happens or how it happens, it's certainly a stinker.

When you are confronted with a level of devastating disease and death, you never lose that sense of unbelievable humility.

You don't get dead and there not be consequences.

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

Every single house has had death visit.

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

For the living, death is thievery.

We were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes.

Meriwether Lewis's last words were, 'I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.' I don't doubt that it is, but it cannot be much harder than being left behind.

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.

Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more.

The misery of other people is only an abstraction something that can be sympathized with only by drawing from one's own experiences. But as it stands, true empathy remains impossible. And so long as it is, people will continue to suffer the pressure of their seemingly singular existence.

Down in Denver, all I did was die.