Jan 9, 2009

Famous Quotes | Dying is a troublesome business:...

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one’s heart; but death is a splendid thing—a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces. - George Bernard Shaw Attribution: George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. Letter of condolence, July 5, 1913. Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters, vol. 3 (1965). Shaw added: “And come and close my eyes too, when I die; and see me with my mask off as I really was.”

Categories: Critic, Death And Dying, Playwright