Ed Koch Quotes

There's no point thinking about dying, because it's going to happen anyway, isn't it? I don't waste my time worrying about that.

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.

Got to die of something," Giraldi observed. "Might as well put back a few pints while you wait to see what it is.

By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death and let it go which way it will he that dies this year is quit for the next

My audience is going to die before I do.

Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That's a tough thing to face.

Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.

Come to think of it, Pasadena's as good a place to die as any.

The thought of my mortality - I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number's up.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

I don’t know. We’ll all be dead.

I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.

Once in a while, when I'm alone, I think about my age. I think, 'How many more years do I have on this earth?' But I can't really conceive of dying.

I feel like Dr. Death.

Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don't look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don't worry about it because it's going to happen to me as it does to anybody.

I'm not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that's inevitable?

I do not fear death. I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear.

It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.

In ten years time I’ll be… (dead) sixty.

Health care is, at its core, about improving the odds of life in its struggle against death. Of extending that game which we will all lose, each and every one of us unto eternity, extending it another year or month or second.

I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped.

It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.