Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.

No one can avoid death; it is inevitable. Therefore, I should create in my mind a kind of willingness and accepting for that event without any fear.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling, and I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity...of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

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

An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes.

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

I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.

I like death. I'm a big fan of it.

It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me.

I think there is, in our society, there is a growing fear of death, a fear of the circumstances in which I might die, a fear I might be over-treated or under-treated. But fear is always a bad guide. Death is part of life.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

I am reconciled to my death, but I detest the mode.

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later - yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

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

I've learned to accept death better than most people.

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

I'm not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that's inevitable?

Maybe I haven't been tested, but I have no fear of death at all. I was with Allen Ginsberg during the last year of his life, and he called all his friends and said, 'I'm on my way out, and it's kind of exciting.' I see it as kind of exciting, too.

My grandma, Nai Nai, has had the clothes she wants to be buried prepared since she was like 60. I guess there is an openness to discussing. It's part of life. It's part of the every day.

The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?

For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.

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