Jeanne Calment Quotes

I am scared of death.

Death is a fearful thing.

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.

I turn to the 'Telegraph's' obituaries page with trepidation.

I've been obsessed with death since I was a little kid.

The first thing I would like to tell you about death is that there is no bigger lie than death. And yet, death appears to be true. It not only appears to be true but also seems like the cardinal truth of life - it appears as if the whole of life is surrounded by death. Whether we forget about it, or become oblivious to it, everywhere death remains close to us. Death is even closer to us than our own shadow.

Death is mighty, and is no one's friend.

If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.

I began to think my time had come, as the saying is.

Death is the final wake-up call.

I am dying, Egypt, dying.

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

I don't want to hear about my death.

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

I'm not really obsessed with death.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

In every death, a busy world comes to an end.

I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.

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

There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.

This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.