Bari Weiss Quotes

We like lists because we don't want to die.

I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed.

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that's not how it works.

I'm kind of a morbid person. I'm very optimistic, but I also feel like I'm going to die at any moment. I feel very much aware of my mortality. I'm here, and then I'm not.

Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking.

Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.

The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.

Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer it.

Every fear is fear of death.

Some people are paralyzed by the consciousness of death, other people live with it.... The fatwa certainly made me think about it a lot more than I ever had. I guess I know I'm going to die, but then, so are you.

Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.

Death is only frightening from the near side.

Love is a mistake when we're all going to die any day now.

It's far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.

We're the only species that can look into the future and know that we're going to die one day, and it causes all sorts of cognitive stress on your system.

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

When you've been in life-threatening situations, you become aware that life is not for ever.

I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.