"It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease."

Imogen Cunningham, American Photographer

People, Disease, Silly

6

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease."

Exlpore more People quotes

"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

People, Man, Respect

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

Victor Hugo, French Author

People, Kings

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

People, Superiority

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

People, Goodness

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

Jane Austen, British Writer

People, Trouble, Want

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

People, Nothing

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

People, Faults

"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

People, Pleasure, Promises

"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."

Dean Koontz, American Author

People, Books, Gifts

"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."

Dean Koontz, American Author

People, Entertainment, Struggle, Support

Explore more quotes by Imogen Cunningham

"I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us."

Love, World

"I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people."

Work, People, Being, Poor

"Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods."

People, Gods

"Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that."

Thought, People

"It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease."

People, Disease, Silly

"I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men."

Man, Men, Hollywood, Ugly

"I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph."

Science, America

"I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods."

People, Gods

"I hate big models."

Hate,

"A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?"

Photography, First, Woman, Wrong