Rudy Giuliani Quotes

Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence, accident, or disease.

There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures.

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.

What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall.

I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.

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

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

When my parents died they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases; one being diabetes.

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

I don't like to think 10 years down the road.

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.

Destructive Death seizes young and old alike.

Death By A Thousand Cuts

The only ultimate power you have as a human being is over your choice to live or die. Everything else is chaos. If you try and think you have control over some of your life, essentially, that's the only real control you have, is whether you decide to exist.

You only have so much time in the day, and you only have so many working years. Where do you want to invest that life?

With my dad it was a short time between him getting ill and passing. He got ill first and he took a turn for the worse very quickly, within days.

What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave.' 'He means to draw it out again, I suppose.

One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else.

And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

My lifestyle determines my deathstyle.

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.