Robert Smith Quotes

I'm happier because I had to face what all of us try not to face: that we're going to die. It's a fact.

We are mortals, we will die one day.

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

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

There's no point thinking about dying, because it's going to happen anyway, isn't it? I don't waste my time worrying about that.

I personally am not so obsessed about immortality for myself. The human body has been designed that way, obsolescence is OK.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

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

But death's acquisitive instincts will win.

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

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.

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

I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal.

I know that I am going to die, and I'm ready to do so.

It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life.

I hope I die before I get old.

You can only live to be so old, then you gotta let go.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.