Tom Green Quotes

I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.

There's not a higher stake than someone having to face their own death.

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

Just because you've faced your own mortality, it doesn't make it any less frightening.

Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

I think there is, in our society, there is a growing fear of death, a fear of the circumstances in which I might die, a fear I might be over-treated or under-treated. But fear is always a bad guide. Death is part of life.

Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

I am not afraid to die. I simply do not want to.

It is better to die once than to be always in fear of death.

To be in touch with death, and the darker side of life, makes the lighter side more enjoyable.

Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying's as natural as living. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live.

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

You have to learn to do everything, even to die.

Man," he said, "I'm not afraid of graveyards. The dead are just, you know, people who wanted the same things you and I want." "What do we want?" I asked blurrily. "Aw, man, you know," he said. "We just want, well, the same things these people wanted." "What was that?" He shrugged. "To live, I guess," he said.

Life is better than death. But death comes eventually to everyone. It is something which many in their prime may prefer not to think about. But at 89, I see no point in avoiding the question. What concerns me is: How do I go? Will the end comes swiftly, with a stroke in one of the coronary arteries? Or will it be a stroke in the mind that lays me out in bed for months, semi-comatose? Of the two, I prefer the quick one.

It’s natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don’t see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we’re human we’re something above nature.

Death is the number two fear that people have and public speaking is the first!

Every fear is fear of death.

When I was young, the early death of my father cast a shadow over me - and I was afraid to die before all my literary plans came true. But between 30 and 40 years of age my attitude to death became quite calm and balanced. I feel it is a natural, but no means the final, milestone of one's existence.

Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?

You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing,' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised.

Do not seek death. Death will find you.