Dorothy Miller Richardson Quotes

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

I'm not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that's inevitable?

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.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

I'm not frightened about death. I don't know why, but I just feel that at a certain moment your switch is switched off, and that's it. And you can't do anything about it.

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

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.

I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.

The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?

Bod shrugged. "So?" he said. "It's only death. I mean, all of my best friends are dead.

sometimes there's nothing to say about death.

I like death. I'm a big fan of it.

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

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

There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.

Come to think of it, Pasadena's as good a place to die as any.

Death is no different whined at than withstood.

I’m ready to die. I hope it’s not too uncomfortable.

I've learned to accept death better than most people.

I'm not getting old, I'm getting dead.

No one can avoid death; it is inevitable. Therefore, I should create in my mind a kind of willingness and accepting for that event without any fear.

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.

I know mortality exists, but I cannot do anything about it. So it does not make me anxious.