Roy Campanella Quotes

For my eightieth year warns me to pack up my baggage before I leave life.

The big change is the proximity to death.

Death is something to savour, and I hope to savour mine.

I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you.

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

I've always been somebody who's acutely aware of my mortality.

It's a weird feeling when you know you're going to die.

It is sensible of me to be aware that I will die one of these days. I will not 'pass away.'

I think you die the way you live.

When you know you are dying, self-deceptions fly from your bedside like embers off a bonfire.

For me, it's not about masochism to talk about death. For me, it's about observing life through death, from the last point of it.

Though I can’t help feeling a sudden death cheats you of something. Death is an experience of life. You only get one death. I would like to be aware it was happening, even if that did mean enduring pain and fear.

The understanding that we reach a point where we stop becoming something and start ending as something. That comes at different times in different points in different people's lives, and obviously there are lots of people who experience the presence of death much more keenly and much earlier than I did. But we all come to grips with it eventually.

At the end of your life, you're lucky if you die.

I don't want to die of some disease I want to die of death

As one gets older, this question of death, becomes more vexing and urgent.

It is not desirable that we should live as in the constant atmosphere and presence of death; that would unfit us for life; but it is well for us, now and then, to talk with death as friend talketh with friend, and to bathe in the strange seas, and to anticipate the experiences of that land to which it will lead us. These forethinkings are meant, not to make us discontented with life, but to bring us back with more strength, and a nobler purpose in living.

How you die out in me: down to the last worn-out knot of breath you're there, with a splinter of life.

Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more.

A dying man can do nothing easy.

In accepting death as inevitable, we don't label it as a good thing or a bad thing. As one of my teachers once said to me, “Death happens. It is just death, and how we meet it is up to us.

Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.

The end of a life is always vivifying.

The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.

The first thing I think of when I wake up is how close I am to death. But then it gets better during the day.