“We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.”

“We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept with resignation. Even accidental death we can ascribe to fate. But for a man to die of no apparent cause, for a man to die simply because he is a man, brings us so close to the invisible boundary between life and death that we no longer know which side we are on. Life becomes death, and it is as if this death has owned this life all along. Death without warning. Which is to say: life stops. And it can stop at any moment.”

“Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to.”

“Certainty is not to be had. But as we learn this we become not more moral but more resigned. We become nihilists.”

“I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.”

“Hello again, I said to death. I was resigned, if not ready.”