Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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

I'm not getting old, I'm getting dead.

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.

He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.

I began to think my time had come, as the saying is.

I know my life is nearing its end and I accept that.

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal.

But death's acquisitive instincts will win.

I'm not frightened about death. I don't know why, but I just feel that at a certain moment your switch is switched off, and that's it. And you can't do anything about it.

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.

I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.

Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

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

Why, I am about doing very well, for I am preparing myself, sir, for a place where hardly any majors, and very few Lieutenant-Generals go. God save us, why should there be such a bustle about the taking off of an old grey head that cannot get up three steps without two men to support it?

Father Time is the enemy none of us can beat.

It seems like people are just dropping off the Earth. I suppose that happens when you get older. It's part of life. No one's getting out of it.

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.

I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.

To most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep.