Graciela Chichilnisky Quotes

There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

Nobody's death is impending." ..."Well technically everyone's death is impending.

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

This is the simplest of all thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.

Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.

We know that death never skips or spares anybody and that no one ever returns. And yet we go on like the blind, who see as little at midday as in the pitch-dark night. We do not take these examples to heart; we do not realize that today or tomorrow our turn will come.

Ageing destroys youth, sickness destroys health, degeneration of life destroys all excellent qualities and death destroys life. Even if you are a great runner, you cannot run away from death. you cannot stop death with your wealth, through your magic performances or recitation of mantras or even medicines. Therefore, it is wise to prepare for your death.

The only thing one can do one day one did not do the day before is to die.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Dying is one of those things that can’t be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.

I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.

The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die... His whole life is absorbed in avoiding death, which is inevitable, and therefore he might be thought to be the most irrational of men, if rationality has anything to do with understanding ends or comprehending the human situation as such.

There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.

Then they told me about the call from home and that they were taking the threats seriously. I don't know why, but hearing I was being targeted did not worry me. It seemed to me that everyone knows they will die one day. My feeling was nobody can stop death; it doesn't matter if it comes from a Talib or cancer. So I should do whatever I want to do.

I don't necessarily view death as something negative. Death gives meaning to life. Living in fear of death is living in denial. Actually, it's not really living at all, because there is no life without death. It's two sides of the one. You can't pick up one side and say, I'm just going to use the 'heads' side. No. It doesn't work like that. You have to pick up both sides because nothing is promised to anyone in this world besides death.

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

If Death is your father, you don't ever have to worry about what part of his body the disease will strike next. If Death is your lover, you don't have to be afraid that he will ever leave you.

The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true

Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.

I said to Life, I would hear Death speak. And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, You hear him now.

Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched behind one now stretches before him.

Life may be treacherous, but you can always depend on death.