Annie Dillard Quotes

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

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

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.

I'm not frightened about death. I don't know why, but I just feel that at a certain moment your switch is switched off, and that's it. And you can't do anything about it.

Dealing with death is there forever, really, you know, because we all have to face it.

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.

When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.

Shakespeare said it best,' Tamaru said quietly as he gazed at that lumpish, misshapen head. 'Something along these lines: if we die today, we do not have to die tomorrow, so let us look to the best in each other

All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective. . . . Remember, it is always later than you think.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine.

Death, thou shalt die.

The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.

People tend to think about God more when the clock starts to wind down.

Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow may be for us and it may not.

I'm dying always.

To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life.

He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well.

I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.

It is the lot of man but once to die.

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

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.

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.

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