Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes

We do have trouble dealing with death, but it's the one thing that is guaranteed we are all going to have to do, and we are going to have to face it many times before we die ourselves.

You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.

Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

Death belongs to the dying and those who love them.

Death is something that happens to others, you think, until it happens to you.

I don't want to hear about my death.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

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

I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.

The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.

Death is an art, you know.

I've never seen anyone die. It's hard to imagine what it would be like.

I don't believe dying's a sad thing.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.

The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

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

Death is a fearful thing.

I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

None of us, in our culture of comfort, know how to prepare ourselves for dying, but that's what we should do every day. Every single day, we die a thousand deaths.

Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.