Harold Brodkey Quotes

Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it.

There's not a higher stake than someone having to face their own death.

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.

I probably am a dead man already.

Life and hope must cease together.

I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.

You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes.

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

That death was near, I suppose I believed, but I saw it only as a rest after the day's work.

Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.

Death, only, renders hope futile.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.

Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.

Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.

Death does determine life.

I'd rather be dead than dying.

It doesn't matter. What matters is that you're about to die.

Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

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.