Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

Death is the final wake-up call.

Death doesn't frighten me, it bothers me. It bothers me for example that someone can be there tomorrow but me I am no longer there. What bothers me is no longer being alive, not being dead.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

When I turned 50, I realized I was now going to start counting backwards in terms of the years I had left. Then I turned 60, and I just stopped counting. I don't have a fear of death, but I have an awareness that there's a time limit.

Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.

People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that's not how it works.

Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.

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

It is sensible of me to be aware that I will die one of these days. I will not 'pass away.'

No one can avoid death; it is inevitable. Therefore, I should create in my mind a kind of willingness and accepting for that event without any fear.

Dying ain't in people's plans, is it?

Death is release, if you've lived all right.

I don't mean to imply that I'm afraid of Death. I'm just not ready to go out on a date with him.

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.

I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

In your teens and twenties, death doesn't exist. In your thirties, you glance down the road occasionally. But then in your forties, it becomes a full-time job looking the other way.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

I am dying, Egypt, dying.

Death is a distant rumor to the young.