Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.

It’s natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don’t see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we’re human we’re something above nature.

Death is a part of life, and eventually I assimilated that completely.

I said to Life, I would hear Death speak. And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, You hear him now.

Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

Not one of the creatures of blood can escape death. We all face it, and succumb to it. It follows us like a dark shadow. Yet if we live in terror of it, then we do not live at all. Yes we are born alone, and yes we will die alone. But in between, Tae, we live. We know joy.

The ever-present expectancy of death is never far removed from any of us - whether we realize it or not. None of us can avoid it. It comes alike to the great and to the unknown; to the righteous and to the unrighteous. Wherein we differ is not in our ability to avert it, but in the preparedness with which we meet it. At such times some question the judgments of God. Some find bitterness because of the circumstances and because of the seeming untimeliness of death.

Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying's as natural as living. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live.

Life and death, union and separation, follow hard upon one another. Nothing is steadfast but the will, nothing endures but one's achieve­ments. These alone count in life.

I never wanted it to end this way, but flies will lay their eggs.

In order to die, you must first have lived.

It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.

Death is a part of life ... and that part of life needs everything that the rest of life does.

But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can't pick out the pieces you like and leave the rest. Being part of the whole thing, that's the blessing.

...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours.

when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.

What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.

If millions are born millions must die.

We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!

We all die at the end, but does that nullify everything? Would most people rather say, "I wish I hadn't been born?" Once you're born you'll have to die, now is that funny or sad?

There is no way to escape death, it is just like trying to escape by four great mountains touching sky. There is no escape from these four mountains of birth, old age, sickness and death.

To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another.

We die, because we live.

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.