Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

Why don't we all just go crazy when we know were going to croak? Because the mind's a monkey. You put things in departments and you go ahead. You go on and plan for the future and assume that the future's going to work out okay. Yet we know that sooner or later we're all going to be eating worms, whether it's fifty years or sixty. It might be tomorrow. It might happen today.

It's far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.

At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

I die pretty much every year. I find it amusing.

I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.

There is need for some kind of make-believe in order to face death unflinchingly. To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for.

The mind will not believe in death, perhaps because, as far as the mind is concerned, death never happens.

I have no fear of death. We all die. I consider my remaining days to be like money in the bank. When it is all gone, I will be repossessed.

Dying is not a sin. Not living is.

L'ide e qu'on mourra est plus cruelle que mourir, mais moins que l'ide e qu'un autre est mort. The idea of dying is worse than dying itself, but less cruel than the idea that another has died.

Do not seek death. Death will find you.

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.

The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of life. Life in its becoming is always shedding death, and on the point of death. The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure - fearlessness and achievement.

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

He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

All fears are one fear. Just the fear of death. And we accept it, then we are at peace.

It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.

Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.

Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

And sure, I know if you eat this way you'll die. So? If you don't eat this way you're still going to die. Why not die happy?

Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.