Joachim von Ribbentrop Quotes

I know death comes. I've seen too much death, young death.

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

We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.

I wanted to acknowledge that life goes on but that death goes on, too. A person who is dead is a long, long story.

I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.

I did once answer the question 'What would you say on your tombstone?' I know what I would say: 'Mario Cuomo, 1932 - dash,' and, 'He tried.' That's it.

I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.

I'd rather be dead than dying.

I know it sounds weird, but how bad, how hard can dying be?

Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

I have died in so many spectacular ways, and I remember shooting them all, too. I imagine all those deaths will flash in front of me when I'm on my death bed, faced with the real thing.

Death is very, very terminal.

Death comes along like a gas bill one can't pay.

Old man! 'Tis not difficult to die.

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

If I die, what a beautiful death.

Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.

The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb

It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce

The last thing in the world that I would want to know, in my own life, is when I'm going to pass away.

death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.

When Death to either shall come - I pray it be first to me.

It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed, or worse, being some natural force propelling life on. Is it selfish? Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.

When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.