Guy Ritchie Quotes

I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.

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.

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

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.

It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.

I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.

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.

I'm not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that's inevitable?

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

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

In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

I'm not afraid of death at all.

To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed.

I don't want to hear about my death.

I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

I'm not frightened about death. I don't know why, but I just feel that at a certain moment your switch is switched off, and that's it. And you can't do anything about it.

I die pretty much every year. I find it amusing.

There is something about this generation living now, that we don't accept death.

When you're scared, you're still hanging on to life. When you're ready to die, you let it go. A sort of emptying out occurs, a giving up on the world that seems oddly familiar even if you've never done it before.

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

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.

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

Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.