Stewart Alsop Quotes

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

To most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep.

I began to think my time had come, as the saying is.

You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes.

Ageing's a difficult thing, moving closer to death, but it's okay. I've had a good time living, so I'm gonna have a good time dying.

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

I’m ready to die. I hope it’s not too uncomfortable.

You will become tired, Siddhartha." "I will become tired." "You will fall asleep, Siddhartha." "I will not fall asleep." "You will die, Siddhartha." "I will die.

I used to not want to die in any way but in my sleep when I was a young man. I'd like to die awake now, if possible, with people around me who love me.

I know my life is nearing its end and I accept that.

Let no man's deathbed be a futon.

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.

Every time we go to sleep, it's a rehearsal of the day when our eyes will ultimately close and we wake up on the side of eternity.

But death's acquisitive instincts will win.

I'm not frightened about death. I don't know why, but I just feel that at a certain moment your switch is switched off, and that's it. And you can't do anything about it.

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.