Quotes
Authors
John Mortimer
"Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The ageing 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
#Running Quotes
#Laughing Quotes
#Dying Quotes
“When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.”
“I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy.”
“If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it.”
“Ultimately, I don't care if people decide that what I'm doing is real or not...as long as they understand it isn't EASY.”
“To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.”
“If you learn to respond as if it’s the first day in your life and the very last day, then you will have spent this day very well.”
“We all fall into our habits, our routines, our ruts. They're used quite often, consciously or unconsciously, to avoid living, to avoid doing the messy part of having relationships with other people, of dealing with a person next to us. That's why we can all be in a room on our cell phones and not have to deal with one another.”
“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.”