Marguerite Gardiner Quotes

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

Oliver: Fear is the natural state of anything that dies.

As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother.

Death is a part of life, and eventually I assimilated that completely.

[Death is] a gimmick. It's the time-birth-death gimmick. Can't go on much longer, too many people are wising up.

If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life.

Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.

Though I'm 75, I'm not looking forward to death, but it's there for all of us.

Part of being alive is dying as well.

We pop into existence and we know that we die and we know that we lose everyone that we love and we know we even lose our own bodies. And what a paradigm. What a mystery.

So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest so gently, that we go, Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay, Being too full of sleep to understand How far the unknown transcends the what we know.

It is not that death comes, but that life leaves.

In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death

Death was no less a miracle than birth.

He that is once borne, once must dy.

In the end, living is defined by dying. Book-ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to bursting by the approaching end. Fear is ever-present, waiting to be called to the surface. Change brought fear, and fear brought destruction.

Death have we hated, knowing not what it meant; Life we have loved, through green leaf and through sere, Though still the less we knew of its intent.

This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay for a place to sleep so that you can keep living to come back to cover more wires. Some people are born and kept living just to come to this.

To live is nothing more than to come here to die, to be what we were before being born, but with apprenticeship, experience, knowledge of cause, and perhaps with will.