Lisa Joy Quotes

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.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

I hope I die before I get old.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

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.

We've spent the last few millennia aware that senescence is horrible but knowing nevertheless that it's inevitable. We've had to find some mechanism to put it out of our minds so we can get on with our miserably short lives.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes.

The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it's kind of a nice thing to say, you know. I think it softens the blow of mortality and having to say goodbye to everything you know and everyone you love and all that kind of thing.

I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.

At my age flowers scare me.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life.

Death is an art, you know.

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.

We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.

When we look on the roses and gaiety of youth, the mournful idea of mortality is altogether alien to our thoughts. We have heard of it as a speculation and a tale, but nothing but experience can bring it home to us.

When I was young, I used to be very frightened of getting older and of death. Now, I'm more resigned to the inevitability.

Part of being alive is dying as well.

At the end of the day, it's not like were not going to die. It's not like there is this one guy that's, like, 900.

It ends all things: birds, trees, flowers, mountain tops, and business; it grinds stones to sand, and as terrible as it is, and it's the most beautiful thing we have in our lives - time.