Nora Ephron Quotes

You have to accept the fact that as long as you are alive, you have something to lose. Living is dangerous.

There's nothing glamorous about being dead.

Nature is very cruel. It is much riskier to love any living being than not. I'm painfully aware that even my little dog is a walking bundle of mortality. I'm painfully aware he's going to pass.

In war, everything changes. You are very selective of what you do because everything you do can be the last thing you do in your life.

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

I find looking forward scary because you might die.

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

I didn't think I was going to die. I knew some did. I knew there were some rumors.

In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.

The great risk of being alive is always that something can happen to you - or to someone you dearly love - at any moment.

True. The one certainty about riding, Braygan, is that - at some time - you will fall off. It is a fact. Another fact you might like to consider, in your life of perpetual terror, is that you will die. We are all going to die, some of us young, some of us old, some of us in our sleep, some of us screaming in agony. We cannot stop it, we can only delay it.

From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year...death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever.

How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?

I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know how I’m going to live.

...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things.

Even the bold will fly when they see Death drawing in close enough to end their life.

Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers die? A world where, if two beings love each other and give their lives to each other, both can be sure that one will watch the other perish?

Death is, in some ways, unacceptable. It's just an astonishing fact of our being here that we die; but I think worse than that is if we live long enough, we lose everyone we love in this world. I mean people die and disappear, and we're left with this stark mystery: just the sheer not knowing of what happened to them.

People have hope because they cannot see Death standing behind them.

And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to die one day. And before that his friends wil die, and the friends of his friends, and, as time passes, the children of his friends, and, if his fate is truly bitter, his own children. (58)

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.