Elias Canetti Quotes

As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.'

Death is out there for all of us.

Death at times seems like a dark tunnel to be traveled, and the future seems bleak.

Ultimately, I think, as humans, we all care deeply about our life's legacy, and contemplating our own mortality is the only real way to approach that question of legacy honestly.

I'm starting to get older, and began to think about mortality a little more. My mother died in 2003 and that was a big shock. When your parents start to die off, that's going to be a revelation. So for me, this album - although it might sound quite cheery - is really talking about death.

There may be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death.

When you attend a funeral, It is sad to think that sooner o' Later those you love will do the same for you. And you may have thought it tragic, Not to mention other adjec- Tives, to think of all the weeping they will do. (But don't you worry.

One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize those occasions when we have been useful in the world.

I don't regret it, you know. I would do it all again. Children are our hope for the future." THERE IS NO HOPE FOR THE FUTURE, said Death. "What does it contain, then?" ME.

What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us.

The most important thing you do in your life is to die.

Even in the grave, all is not lost.

While you are living, part of you has slipped away to the cemetery.

That which we die for lives as wholly as that which we live for dies.

Now when I die, I shall only be dead.

The chief problem about death ... is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought.

Most people are not ready for death, theirs or anybody elses.

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

A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.

There is no fair in life and death. If it were, no good men would die young.

Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living.

Maybe you should say goodbye, Cal.' 'No.' 'It might be important.' 'It might make her die.

The one true freedom in life is to come to terms with death, and as early as possible, for death is an event that embraces all our lives. And the only way to have a good death is to lead a good life. The more we do God's will, the less unfinished business we leave behind when we die.