Affliction Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

“If some persons died and others did not die death would indeed be a terrible affliction.”

— Jean de La Bruyère

Death would not be called bad, o people, if one knew how to truly die.

— Guru Nanak

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

— Henry Fielding

Things have a terrible permanence when people die.

— Joyce Kilmer

Many would be willing to have afflictions provided that they not be inconvenienced by them.

— Anonymous

But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone

— Sebastian Horsley

In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some…

— Charles Caleb Colton

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

— Henry Fielding

You think that their dying is the worst thing that could happen. Then they stay dead.

— Donald Hall

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not…

— Alan Ball

A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.

— Victor Hugo