#dying

Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and its disadvantages at cocktail parties, giving the user what he described as a child's-eye view of the party and a crotch-level view of the guests. Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The aging process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over and runs off laughing. No one should grow old who isn't ready to appear ridiculous. ↗

— John Mortimer

#dying #handicaps #age

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa. ↗

— John Dalton

#day-to-day #discipline #fiction #fiction writing #highly

Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me. ↗

— James Dean

#boo #character #chickens #cows #develop

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#children #first #frequently #gained #i

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. ↗

— Redd Foxx

#feel #going #health #hospitals #lying

And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath. ↗

— Mark Doty

#death #dying #kiss #life #old-age

Los viejos tienen la muerte, y los jóvenes el amor, y la muerte viene una sola vez y el amor muchas. ↗

— Yasunari Kawabata

#love #old-age #age

- Отново съм хванат на тясно. Каквото и да правя, някой все ще умре. А ако не науча езика ви, цяло едно село ще загине. Не правя ли каквото искате от мен, все някой невинен умира. Не виждам изход. - Изходът е лесен, Анджин-сан. Умрете. Не сте длъжен да понасяте непоносимото. ↗

— James Clavell

#death

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#death

I cannot live, if I am already dead. ↗

— Donna Russo Morin

#death-and-dying #live #death