444 quotes found
“If not his life, Rustom Iraqiwalla wanted his death to be worth something.”
“I'm merely dying to be remembered for simply writing about my living memories”
“You had a certain way of saying my name. It was the inflection maybe, something you put into those three syllables. And now you are gone and my name is just my name again, not the story of my life.”
“I can tell you something remarkable about that time, although it has only just occurred to me now. I never thought about death, like I do now. I never worried about dying. I only ever thought about...”
“It hadn't occurred to me that my mother would die. Until she was dying, the thought had never entered my mind. She was monolithic and insurmountable, the keeper of my life. She would grow old and s...”
“Death is the great equalizer”
“Thats part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence”
“I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.”
“Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying”
“That's the secret. If you always make sure you're exactly the person you hoped to be, if you always make sure you know only the very best people, then you won't care if you die tomorrow.”
“Most people die at 25 and arent buried until theyre 75.”
“The old man smiled. 'I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived.”
“Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death”
“Ill try to be around and about. But if Im not, then you know that Im behind your eyelids, and Ill meet you there”
“Youll live for as long as you live, and once you stop living, you dont have to worry about staying alive any more because youll be dead.”
“It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.”
“To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for ...”
“Sometimes, the Lord just takes blessed people because they've filled their purpose early. Everyone plays their own song. They sing their story to the world and leave behind a melody of memories. So...”
“It was good that she remembered him, though it was exhausting to do so.No rest for the weary. Or the dying. Or the dead.”
“We are so afraid of the idea of having to die that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn”
