dying quotes for loved ones

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. ~Lois Wyse



We are all parasites; we humans, the greatest. ~Martin H. Fischer



You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. ~Jack London



There's something beautifully soothing about a fact - even (or perhaps especially) if we're not sure what it means. ~Daniel J. Boorstin



The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country. ~William Hazlitt, Table Talk



Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. ~Isadora Duncan



Dreams are nature's answering service - don't forget to pick up your messages once in a while. ~Sarah Crestinn



Man was created a little lower than the angels, and has been getting lower ever since. ~Josh Billings



On CBS Radio the news of Ed Murrow's death, reportedly from lung cancer, was followed by a cigarette commercial. ~Alexander Kendrick



Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 26 Don't ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman's reputation. ~Colette, Gigi, 1944, translated



The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. ~Heywood Broun



Taxes: Of life's two certainties, the only one for which you can get an automatic extension. ~Author Unknown



To Crystal, hair was the most important thing on earth. She would never get married because you couldn't wear curlers in bed. ~Edna O'Brien



There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire. ~John C. Collins



Our only hope for the redemption of woman from the thralldom of dress lies in the belief that her hitherto limited sphere of activities has been so insufficient for her intellectual occupations that she has been forced to expend her thoughts in decorating her person, instead of enlarging her mind. ~Mercy B. Jackson



America is the best half-educated country in the world. ~Nicholas Murray Butler



To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting. ~Stanislaus I of Poland



The devil... seldom leads people astray anymore, finding it easier to just follow along in their footsteps. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com