Gertrude Stein Quotes

I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die because they know not how to prevent dying.

He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.

If I'm okay with dying, my son is at least as enlightened as that. If I'm okay with my cancer, my son is at least as enlightened as I am.

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.

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 were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.

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.

I'm dying, and I'm having fun.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

If you die, you're not a failure.

I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.

Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don't look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don't worry about it because it's going to happen to me as it does to anybody.

When you have been killed as many times as I have, you get used to it.

I am very happy, Jane; and when you hear that I am dead, you must be sure and not grieve: there is nothing to grieve about. We all must die one day, and the illness which is removing me is not painful; it is gentle and gradual: my mind is at rest. I leave no one to regret me much: I have only a father; and he is lately married, and will not miss me. By dying young, I shall escape great sufferings. I had not qualities or talents to make my way very well in the world: I should have been continually at fault.

I have a natural tendency to feel well about the world, I suppose, one way or another. But then there is the problem of pain. There are things like [Abraham] Lincoln's beloved little boy dying.

Firstly, do not fear hardship, and secondly, do not fear death.

We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

Life is hard, but death is even harder.

I die hard but am not afraid to go.

Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.

Death is a part of life, and eventually I assimilated that completely.