Bell Hooks Quotes

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Death is either an incredible ending to a story or, more often than not if you ask the right questions, it's the beginning of a story.

Death is the most blessed dream.

I think that when I die, it might be some time until I know it.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

I'm not frightened of death.

I'm not scared of death anymore.

The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death.

Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.

I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about.

Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.

I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future.

To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death.

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

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

Death is just life's next big adventure.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.