Will Self Quotes

I'm not afraid of death at all.

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

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

Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.

To have died once is enough.

I don't believe dying's a sad thing.

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.

For tis not in mere death that men die most.

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.

When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

I don't want to hear about my death.

I'm not sure I've learned anything new about life; but I've had to think harder about death and what comes after for other people.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.

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

Death, the final, triumphant lover.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal.

Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about how to die - distinguishes us from other animals. The need to manage death is the particular lot of humanity.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.