George Santayana Quotes

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

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.

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

None of us, in our culture of comfort, know how to prepare ourselves for dying, but that's what we should do every day. Every single day, we die a thousand deaths.

Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

I've learned to accept death better than most people.

I'm not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that's inevitable?

I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.

Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.

I’m always feeling death, and that is a part of life. When you know a lot of people, you will always experience death.

One day I will have to forgive life for ending, I tell myself. I will have to learn how to let life be life with its unbearable finality ... just be what it is.

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.

The dead's dead ... get 'em in the ground and look to the live ones.

You don't know what is going to come to you in this world; you have to go on living and worrying. Those who die are pitying us; they are blessing us. Why should you grieve for them?

Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but only "I have given it back." Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is your wife dead? She has been returned.

I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?

Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up-never. That is a most gloomy thing for contemplation; it's like manure. Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on, so the contemplation of death and the acceptance of death is very highly generative of creating life. You'll get wonderful things out of that.

Did he die well?" No, I thought. Nobody did. They just died.

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

I am Dead, but it's not so bad. I've learned to live with it.

I've worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know that death isn't out to get me.

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

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

I would hate the thought of dying full stop; I've got to be honest with you.