Dylan Thomas Quotes

Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day.

Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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.

Do not go gentle into that good night.

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Then die. We must all do that. But die, as they say, game.

Rage, rage against the dying light.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

There's not a higher stake than someone having to face their own death.

Death is a very important part of life.

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

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

I don't want to hear about my death.

I'm not sure I've learned anything new about life; but I've had to think harder about death and what comes after for other people.

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

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

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

Sometimes I would make myself very still and try to imagine myself dead. I tried to invoke the feeling of the very last breath I would take.

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

I'm not really obsessed with 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.