J. M. Coetzee Quotes

He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.

The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

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

There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do 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.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

I don’t know. We’ll all be dead.

Though I'm 75, I'm not looking forward to death, but it's there for all of us.

In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases

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

Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.

We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

I glared at him. "I may not die now... but I'm going to die sometime. Every minute of the day, I get closer. And I'm going to get old.

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.

New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.

Everyone is going to die.

We're all going to die.

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

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

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

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

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

I'm not really obsessed with death.