Silas Weir Mitchell Quotes

Treat Death as it treats us: with utter indifference.

Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death we human beings all live in an unwalled city.

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.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.

Life continues, irrespective of whether we are there or not.

I'm afraid of death... Yes, but that doesn't stop death coming.

I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.

Everybody dies. There’s nothing you can do about it. Whether or not you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God. (Although there’s no question a belief in God would come in handy. It would be great to think there’s a plan, and that everything happens for a reason. I don’t happen to believe that. And every time one of my friends says to me, “Everything happens for a reason,” I would like to smack her.)

Then they told me about the call from home and that they were taking the threats seriously. I don't know why, but hearing I was being targeted did not worry me. It seemed to me that everyone knows they will die one day. My feeling was nobody can stop death; it doesn't matter if it comes from a Talib or cancer. So I should do whatever I want to do.

You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can hope for.

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?

Death is a part of all our lives. Whether we like it or not, it is bound to happen. Instead of avoiding thinking about it, it is better to understand its meaning. We all have the same body, the same human flesh, and therefore we will all die. There is a big difference, of course, between natural death and accidental death, but basically death will come sooner or later. If from the beginning your attitude is 'Yes, death is part of our lives,' then it may be easier to face.

Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.

Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than others, obviously. 'But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.' And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten-- since, in either case, other men will continue living, the world will go on as before. Also, whether I died now or forty years hence, this business of dying had to be got through, inevitably.

I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next.

If Death stepped miraculously through the glass and came in after you, in all probability you just got up and went along with him, ferociously but quietly.

We know that death never skips or spares anybody and that no one ever returns. And yet we go on like the blind, who see as little at midday as in the pitch-dark night. We do not take these examples to heart; we do not realize that today or tomorrow our turn will come.

I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call.

The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.

The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life.

Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree's summit.

Life is death in slow motion.

An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.