139 Quotes by Jack Kevorkian

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' ease but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonging and even magnifying patients' dis-ease.

I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.

I learned to smile by going through hell. Now I know what hell is and you don't. I can't tell you how it is, cause you can't do it with words.

Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.

Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss, most of us will do anything to thwart the inevitable victory of biological death.

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.

I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.