“Once I’m dead, I can afford to be patient.”
Source: Mother of Storms (1994), p. 350
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“Only the dead could afford oblivion.”
Source: (January 2004), Chapter 1: The Hook. p. 5
“I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.”
As quoted in Memorable Quotations: Jewish Writers of the Past (2005) edited by Carol A. Dingle.
“Even before I was me, I was God in God;
And I can be once again, as soon as I am dead to myself”
The Cherubinic Wanderer
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
“I’m southern born, and southern bred, and when I die, I’ll be southern dead.”
Following death of former Democratic Georgia state House Speaker Tom Murphy in December 2007. Zell Miller: Murphy death ends era of individual power player | ajc.com http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2007/12/18/zellmiller_1219.html
from an interview for El Mundo (2014), regarding the announcement of Morrissey's cancer diagnosis
In interviews etc., About life and death
“I do not need my freedom when I’m dead.
I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.”
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Context: I tire so of hearing people say,
Let things take their course.
Tomorrow is another day.
I do not need my freedom when I’m dead.
I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
“Stand up from among the dead, and patiently work as one waiting for the judgment-seat of Christ.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 125.