Bob Monkhouse Quotes

Wisdom knows when to return death's embrace.

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

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Treat Death as it treats us: with utter indifference.

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.

I've become pretty philosophical about a lot of things, including death. It doesn't get to me.

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

Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.

For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.

I have come to know that it [death] is an important thing to keep in mind - not to complain or to make melancholy, but simply because only with the honest knowledge that one day I will die I can ever truly begin to live.

Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.

It is rather interesting how you get used to death.

We figure out what death means when we're born, practically, and we live our whole lives in some kind of weird denial about it.

Nobody asked you about being born, nobody is going to ask you when the time comes for you to be taken away. Then why be worried? Birth happened to you; death will happen to you; who are you to come in between?

Death must be got through as life had been, just somehow.

In accepting death as inevitable, we don't label it as a good thing or a bad thing. As one of my teachers once said to me, “Death happens. It is just death, and how we meet it is up to us.

Some mortals--like you--are already half in love with death. It is who you are, and I'll not make it harder on you by telling you things you don't need to know. Ask me again when you die. Then I'll tell you everything, anything, nothing.

And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.

Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.

I'd rather be over the hill than under it.

Some people are paralyzed by the consciousness of death, other people live with it.... The fatwa certainly made me think about it a lot more than I ever had. I guess I know I'm going to die, but then, so are you.

Death would not be called bad, o people, if one knew how to truly die.

A man says to the doctor: "What's the good news?" "You've got 24 hours to live." He says: "What's the bad news?" The doctor says: "We should have told you yesterday."

Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.

The latter. She had a good run, Sook said, doing a little shrug. It was his usual response to death at Mapleshade, and it was a safe bet that he felt that way about himself. Like most twice-widowed, Korea-vet, nature-loving, gun-enthusiast, bilingual, weed-connoisseur great grandfathers of five, he'd lived a full life.