Quotes About Deathbed

Life is much, much more than is necessary and much, much more than any of us can bear, so we erase it or it erases us, we ourselves are an erasure of everything we have forgotten or don't know or haven't experiences, and on our deathbed, even that limited erased 'whole' becomes further diminished...

A quark is not the smallest thing. The smallest thing is the regret you will feel on your deathbed for not having worked more.

She imagined that when she eventually arrived at her deathbed, she would feel more regret about her unborn children than her unwritten books.

Perhaps it is only when we realize and celebrate the intrinsic value of every human life that celebrity - true celebrity - shines most brightly. On our deathbeds, none of us will speak of the jobs we've held or the stuff we've acquired in our lifetimes; here bull markets and Nielsen ratings are irrelevant. A life-threatening illness jettisons pretension in no time flat. Death is the great equalizer. Death dares us to define what really matters.

Grauman died of heart failure in the spring of 1950, died a bachelor, aged seventy-one, and the only people at his deathbed were his doctor, his secretary for the past twenty-one years, and the publicity chief of 20th Century—Fox. Long

In his deathbed delirium, Jackson had cried out, "Order A.P. Hill to prepare for action . . . Pass the infantry to the front." These laurels were richly deserved, for Hill was inseparable from Jackson's string of victories. He effected a system of command and discipline within his division which made it a model within the Army of Northern Virginia. His emphasis on speed led it to become known as the "Light Division," despite its large size (six brigades).