Dylan Thomas Quotes

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

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

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.

The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gather'd up gold, And now he is dying;- Old age, begin sighing!

To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.

What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

I used to not want to die in any way but in my sleep when I was a young man. I'd like to die awake now, if possible, with people around me who love me.

I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.

Every time we go to sleep, it's a rehearsal of the day when our eyes will ultimately close and we wake up on the side of eternity.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

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.

I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness like a quilt and be dead and at peace evermore.

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don't think about dying, either.

Dying people often become childish.

To retire is to begin to die.

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.

I don't want to die an old lady.

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.