Life's End Quotes

It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share. It is time to go.

He had never looked forward to the wisdom and other vaunted benefits of old age. Would he be able to die young—and if possible free of all pain? A graceful death—as a richly patterned kimono, thrown carelessly across a polished table, slides unobtrusively down into the darkness of the floor beneath. A death marked by elegance.

The meaning of life is that it stops.

Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world

Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end of life puts the longest life on a par with the shortest... And of what consequence is it what kind of death puts an end to life, since he who has died once is not forced to go through the same ordeal a second time? They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.

What is death to me? I have sown the seeds others will reap.

When the Lord calls me home, whenever that may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this county of ours and eternal optimism for its future.

It's over. We've all been sentenced to die.

You're all going to die. I hate to remind you, but it is on your schedule. It probably won't happen when you'd like; generally, it's an inconvenience.

I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

When Death to either shall come - I pray it be first to me.

All I can say is, death is a part of life.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle - everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things.

I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.

I'll perform all the way to the grave.

Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.

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

Death persecutes before it executes.

Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.

To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished.

Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . . . . . (quoting an obituary) 'There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever happens to man is natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it he would sense to it an unjustifiable violation.' Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the key spring of The Lord Of The Rings