Died Quote by Otto Friedrich

THE DEATH OF LEOPOLD GURSKY Leopold Gursky started dying on August 18, 1920. He died learning to walk. He died standing at the blackboard.…

— Nicole Krauss

“His vital signs were taken, an electrocardiogram... which revealed occasional ventricular premature contractions. An intern took his history... and then he was promptly... simply...…

— Paddy Chayefsky

Mr. Bernard died on a Monday, at the age of seventy-five, his body wasted. He lay in state for two days in the lobby…

— Mordecai Richler

To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.

— Elbert Hubbard

He was so poor that he couldnt afford a funeral thats why he is still alive.

— Vikrant Parsai

He [President Franklin D. Roosevelt] died in harness, and we may well say in battle harness, like his soldiers, sailors and airmen who died…

— Winston Churchill

“This story is about Howard Beale, who was the news anchorman on UBS TV. In his time, Howard Beale had been a mandarin of…

— Paddy Chayefsky

It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

— Walter Keane

He died a long painful death. However, you'll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.

— Anonymous

A year after Hemingway died on the front page, Faulkner went off after a binge, as if dying was nobody's business but his own.

— Alfred Kazin

Most grievous of all deaths it is to die of hunger.

— Homer

“How could a man with so much heart die from a heart attack?”

— Joan Bauer