Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Death is just a part of life, you know? It's what makes all of life more vibrant. It's coming whether we want to accept it or not.

Death is an absolute marvel.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

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

Death is a very important part of life.

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.

When I was young, I used to be very frightened of getting older and of death. Now, I'm more resigned to the inevitability.

The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?

An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!