George S. Patton Quotes

Bod shrugged. "So?" he said. "It's only death. I mean, all of my best friends are dead.

Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.

Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.

I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.

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.

I'm rather relaxed about death. From quite an early age I've regarded it as part of the deal, the unwritten guarantee that comes with your birth certificate.

Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.

My grandmother died of natural causes. Or as my family calls it murdered by the lord.

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

After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.

Wisdom knows when to return death's embrace.

To my mind, there are two things that, in life, you can do about death. Either you can choose to ignore it, in which case you may have some success in making the idea of it go away for a limited period of time, or you can confront the prospect of your own death and try to analyze it and, in so doing, try to minimize some of the inevitable suffering that it causes. Neither way can you actually overcome it.

If Death is your father, you don't ever have to worry about what part of his body the disease will strike next. If Death is your lover, you don't have to be afraid that he will ever leave you.

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

The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true

Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

The death of our close friends and relatives proves that how close the death is to us!

Granted that I must die, how shall I live?

People expect old men to die, They do not really mourn old men. Old men are different. People look At them with eyes that wonder when ... People watch with unshocked eyes; But the old men know when an old man dies.

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.

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.

Once you learn how to die you learn how to live.