Death Quote by Mokokoma Mokhonoana — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.”

“To the wise, peace of mind is the result of being fine with how things are; to the foolish, the result of things being fine.”

“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”

“Sometimes silence is a sign, not of not knowing what to say, but of knowing when to say what you know.”

“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.”

“You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever.”

“I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a simple admixture — a weird yearning for death combined with a crushing sense of my own smallness and futility that presents as a fear of death. It’s maybe close to what people call dread or angst. But it’s not these things, quite. It’s more like wanting to die in order to escape the unbearable feeling of becoming aware that I’m small and weak and selfish and going without any doubt at all to die. It’s wanting to jump overboard.”

“I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.”

“Other friends have flown before -”

“Just remember, what the French say. No, probably not the French, they've got a president or something. The Brits, maybe, or the Swedes. You know what I mean?”

“Death is terrible for anyone. Young or old, good or evil, it’s all the same. Death is impartial. There is no especially terrible death. That’s why death is so fearsome. Your deeds, your age, your personality, your wealth, your beauty: they are all meaningless in the face of death.”