Chief Seattle Quotes

But I felt all the more bound to make this proposal, because it at once turns to a reproach.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Every nation, like every individual, would like to believe it owes 'no apology' to anyone. Adults realise, however, that few among us are purely innocent or utterly blameless.

Life continues, irrespective of whether we are there or not.

Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The troops broke through the window and snatched the body and the body is gone. ... Death reduces us to the baffled logic of a small child. If yesterday why not today?

Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched behind one now stretches before him.

Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.

When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.

All things fade and quickly turn to myth.

The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.

Death's but one more to-morrow.

Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!

This is one I know you hated when you heard it and it's worse because you know that I deserve it

My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment.

Apologies are not pass/fail.

Ageing destroys youth, sickness destroys health, degeneration of life destroys all excellent qualities and death destroys life. Even if you are a great runner, you cannot run away from death. you cannot stop death with your wealth, through your magic performances or recitation of mantras or even medicines. Therefore, it is wise to prepare for your death.

Name none of the fallen, for they stand in our place, and stand there still in each moment of our lives. Let my death hold no glory, and let me die forgotten and unknown. Let it not be said that I was one among the dead to accuse the living.

I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.

To be cliché, death is a part of life and it's going to happen to all of us. I have the blessing of getting a little bit of advance notice and I am able to optimize my use of time down the home stretch.

... life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a microsecond of carelessness, and it's out. Forever.

Yes, Max, you are going to die. Just like everybody else. Thank you, Confucious.

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided.

Death is the reward for living

The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death and that we are all in for---if not this morning, then in days, or weeks, or years at most.