6 George Bernard Shaw Quotes on Death

George Bernard Shaw quotes on death

74. You may remember that on Earth--though of course we never confessed it--the death of anyone we knew, even those we liked best, was always mingled with a certain satisfaction at being finally done with them.

79. The earth is a nursery in which men and women play at being heroes and heroines, saints and sinners; but they are dragged down from their fool's paradise by their bodies: hunger and cold and thirst, age and decay and disease, death above all, make them slaves of reality: thrice a day meals must be eaten and digested: thrice a century a new generation must be engendered: ages of faith, of romance, and of science are all driven at last to have but one prayer 'Make me a healthy animal.'

120. Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

159. Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.

160. Do not try to live for ever. You will not succeed.

163. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.