Tony Judt Quotes

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

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

Everyone is going to die.

We're all going to die.

Death is something that happens to others, you think, until it happens to you.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Come to think of it, Pasadena's as good a place to die as any.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

I don't want to die an old lady.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

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

I probably am a dead man already.

All of us have the same thing coming - death. It's waiting. But I don't want to go. I want to live to be 102!

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

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.

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

There's no point thinking about dying, because it's going to happen anyway, isn't it? I don't waste my time worrying about that.

In the end, death came uniformly to all, and all extracted as much satisfaction from their dying as this essentially graceless process could afford.

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

Isn't death the boundary we need?

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

Well, he died. You don't get any older than that.

Death is the ultimate negative.