Samuel Johnson Quotes

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

Make a living will. Talk about it. Death is going to happen to everybody. Write it down. Even if you write it on a piece of paper at home and have your family witness it, you need to write it down.

I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.

I probably am a dead man already.

What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I haven't decided yet.

Death is a fact of life, no matter where you live. Taking care of the dying is a necessity everywhere. Those are not conditions exclusive to small towns.

Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.

You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.

As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during the day.

All the trouble you will cause by not leaving a will. All the heartache! Family feuds are going to happen anyway, so be as clear as you can. And even if it's only to leave it to the cat's home, make a will.

I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness and inutility of it.

I think people don't think or talk about death very much. I don't think we're very open about it, at least in my experience.

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.

Most people are not ready for death, theirs or anybody elses.

To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

Killing is easy," said Mo, "Dying is harder.

You're never too young to die.

When you die, that does not mean that you lose to cancer.

Dying is to be avoided because it can ruin your whole career.

Dying's a boring side effect.

O little one, My little one, Come with me, Your life is done. Forget the future, Forget the past. Life is over: Breathe your last.

And the real thing can kill you whether you believe in it or not.

whereas, up to the present, there is only one known way of getting born, there are endless ways of getting killed.

Remember when you were a little kid and you'd fall asleep in the car? And someone would carry you out and put you into bed, so that when you woke up in the morning, you knew automatically you were home again? That's what I think it's like to die.