John Gay Quotes

Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.

I am dying. Please ... bring me a toothpick.

A lot of people want to die for a lot of reasons.

There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'

Oh my God. My God. It’s all over.

Life without hope is no life.

Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.

We are dying, we are dying, piecemeal our bodies are dying and our strength leaves us, and our soul cowers naked in the dark rain over the flood, cowering in the last branches of the tree of our life.

If all I can say is I'm not in this swamp, I'm not in this swamp then there is not a rope in front of me and there is not an alligator behind me and there is not a girl sitting at the edge eating a hot dog and if I believe that, then dying would be the only answer because then Death couldn't come and say Peachy to me anymore and after all she has a brother who believes in hope.

Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.

We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!

Despair is infidelity and death.

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

All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective. . . . Remember, it is always later than you think.

These have not the hope to die.

In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases

It is the absence of hope, which equals the despair that is the punishment.

Dying--shucks! If you kin handle the living, what's to be afraid of the dying?

To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.

There may be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death.

Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die.