Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

I do not fear death. I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear.

I’m ready to die. I hope it’s not too uncomfortable.

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.

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 know mortality exists, but I cannot do anything about it. So it does not make me anxious.

You have to learn to do everything, even to die.

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.

I'm not frightened about death. I don't know why, but I just feel that at a certain moment your switch is switched off, and that's it. And you can't do anything about it.

Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.

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

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.

What does he say?' he asked. 'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re going to die.' 'Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

If you live right, death is a joke to you as far as fear is concerned.

If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms.

And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.

I have no fear of death. We all die. I consider my remaining days to be like money in the bank. When it is all gone, I will be repossessed.

I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.

Do not seek death. Death will find you.

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

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

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

The dead are silent because they live, just as we chatter so loudly to try to make ourselves forget that we are dying. Their silence is really their call to me, the assurance of their immortal love for me.

A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?