Maya Angelou Quotes

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

I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.

Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don't look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don't worry about it because it's going to happen to me as it does to anybody.

One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.

I guess I don't believe that death is the end.

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

I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely.

Everybody is going to die, so people are enthralled by the possibility that they don't have to completely die, that there is something that comes afterward. It's like if you're going to France for the summer, you're going to read up on it. Everyone just wants to know where they're going, or if they're going anywhere.

When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!

I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.'

I'm always curious about what happens when we die. And I'd like to think that somehow the spirit goes on. I'd rather not think that it's just about this.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

I would hate the thought of dying full stop; I've got to be honest with you.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Why, I am about doing very well, for I am preparing myself, sir, for a place where hardly any majors, and very few Lieutenant-Generals go. God save us, why should there be such a bustle about the taking off of an old grey head that cannot get up three steps without two men to support it?

I hope that I am out of the music business when I meet God.

If you die, you're not a failure.

There is no Death,/What seems so is transition.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.

Only the dying man can tell how much time he has left.