Quotes on Death

What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?

As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up.

I'm not interested in using my father's death as some touch point for why I've become an actor - it's grossly opportunistic.

You've gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we're just nice, sort of 'death by cupcake.'

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

I would never run away from my country. Even at the point of death, I doubt I would move out, because what is the point of leaving your own country?

The death of a 20-year-old woman is intuitively worse than that of a 2-month-old girl, even though the baby has had less life. The 20-year-old has a much more developed personality than the infant, and has drawn upon the investment of others to begin as-yet-unfulfilled projects.

Bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We're a nation of debtors.

The first memory I have in the world is of death and tears. That is how I would mark the beginning of my life: the way people mark the end of one. My family had gathered at Papa Joe's house because Mam' Grace was slipping away, only I didn't register it that way. For some reason I thought that it was her birthday.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

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

Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed.

Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only a little? - remains, despite our secularism, the most metaphoricised phenomenon of all.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events.

Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

I never had a conscious fear of death, but I did have a conscious fear of sickness. By the time I completed medical school, that fear was gone.

Education used to be a slice of life, something you did as a child through college, and then spent the rest of your life working, and then death. Everything is about to change. I believe education will become something that fits seamlessly into life, and we will take big clunky things like degrees and college and fit them into a weekend.