6 Quotes by Horace McCoy

Let’s go sit and hate a bunch of people.

Isn’t there something I can talk about that won’t remind you that you wish you were dead?’ I asked.‘No,’ she said.

This was one day Gloria had no reason to be morbid, but she was more morbid than ever.

It's peculiar to me,' she said, 'that everybody pays so much attention to living and so little to dying. Why are these high-powered scientists always screwing around trying to prolong life instead of finding pleasant ways to end it? There must be a hell of a lot of people in the world like me--who want to die but haven't got the guts.

Customers at a marathon do not have to be prepared for their excitement. When anything happens they get excited all at once. In that respect a marathon dance is like a bullfight.

It’s peculiar to me,′ she said, ’that everybody pays so much attention to living and so little to dying. Why are these high-powered scientists always screwing around trying to prolong life instead of finding pleasant ways to end it? There must be a hell of a lot of people in the world like me – who want to die but haven’t got the guts.