Ellen Hopkins Quotes

Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don't look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don't worry about it because it's going to happen to me as it does to anybody.

Please don't set me free Death means a lot me

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.

We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Just because you've faced your own mortality, it doesn't make it any less frightening.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

No doubt many people have the feeling that to talk about death at all is, in effect, to conjure it up mentally, to bring it closer in such a way that one has to face up to the inevitability of one's own eventual demise. So, to spare ourselves this psychological trauma, we decide just to try to avoid the topic as much as possible.

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

I am not afraid to die. I simply do not want to.

I don't want to die.

It's a weird feeling when you know you're going to die.

There's no point thinking about dying, because it's going to happen anyway, isn't it? I don't waste my time worrying about that.

Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?

We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.

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.