Stephane Hessel Quotes

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

In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death.

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

The last day of your life is still going to be a day.

People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.

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.

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.

It's a weird feeling when you know you're going to die.

I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.

Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don't look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don't worry about it because it's going to happen to me as it does to anybody.

At the end of your life, you're lucky if you die.

I will go to my grave seeing the look on your face at the last. Keep it up and you'll go sooner than later.

The end of a life is always vivifying.

He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach.

Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.

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

Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.

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.

It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.