Elizabeth I Quotes

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 with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

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

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.

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

The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow confronts us with the prospect of our own deaths, draws our own deaths closer and makes them more real and thinkable.

I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate.

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

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

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.

Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

Behind every citizen lies a graveyard.

Once you're dead, your worries are over.

I feel like if you boil supernatural ghost films down to their core essence, they're really about death.

Who that hath ever been Could bear to be no more? Yet who would tread again the scene He trod through life before?

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

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

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

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.

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.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!