#dying

Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#customers #dead #did #dying #ever

Dying has a funny way of making you see people, the living and the dead, a little differently. Maybe that's just part of the grieving, or maybe the dead stand there and open our eyes a bit wider. ↗

— Susan Gregg Gilmore

#death

So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#born #dying #existence #imagine #only

This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to the obesity problem. ↗

— Judy Davis

#be the first #dying #first #generation #kids

‎"The days are hot and the dead lie unburied. We cannot fetch them all in, if we did we should not know what to do with them. The shells will bury them... ↗

— Enrich M. Remarque

#death-and-dying #war #death

There's a better approach. To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way, you can actually be more involved in your life while you're living it. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#dying #tuesdays-with-morrie #death

Everyone wants to be the one to get the mattress pad. ... We can do this. We all love to do. The more we can do, the less we have to sit and stare at trees and think about the transient nature of life." - 131 ↗

— Robin Romm

#death-of-a-loved-one #death

To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished. ↗

— Herta Müller

#death-and-dying #gulag #hunger #starvation #will-to-live

The over-weight and out of shape guy who owned the house had apparently decided that having a half-million dollar house meant that he couldn’t afford to hire someone to clean out his gutters. Now he was dead with what looked to me like a broken neck after the ladder had slipped. He’d taken the plunge into his fancy landscaping—complete with rock garden. But hey, his fucking gutters were clean. ↗

— Diana Rowland

#dying #garden #humor #irony #sarcasm

My mother would never let me in the kitchen. I always wanted to cook, but I was never allowed to. Her view of the world was, 'Cooking is my job, and studying is your job.' I think, in retrospect, she didn't like the chaos. She was very orderly. It had to be her way. ↗

— Ina Garten

#always #chaos #cook #cooking #had