Elayne Boosler Quotes

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.

In modern times, if you're on an airplane and it's going down, that's it. You've got a couple of minutes, if that, to work out where you stand in relationship to the whole of your life.

I've always been terrified of dying, always. It was a concern of mine long before it had to be.

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

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

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

As a kid, all I thought about was death.

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

The whole idea of death is something that we tend to kind of really not deal with at all.

I don't think having a fear of death is unreasonable.

I tell myself to hurry up, that I have to do everything before death catches me.

At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.

Given six months to live and being the fighter that I am, I set high goals for myself.

You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the days are getting shorter, and you can't put things off thinking you'll get to them someday. If you really want to do them, you better do them. There are simply too many people getting sick, and sooner or later you will.

Facing your own mortality forces you to re-evaluate your priorities.

I think being dead isn't any problem. It's the process of dying which is quite off-putting.

I have always been very wary of what would happen when I die. I feel I would die every day, and that thought sometimes made me more aware that I am alive.

For many of us, we set out thinking there will be time in the future, and then suddenly we find ourselves at a moment when we have to acknowledge that the future isn't infinite.

Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking.

I fear that the day I die, I am going to die without accomplishing what I have in my mind. Life is too short, and a lot of things can happen, and I am really keen to see it with my own eyes - and that is why I am in a hurry.

I've been obsessed with death since I was a little kid.

You only have so much time on this planet.

I think we have to assume we have one life. Though, having said that, I did write a song called 'You Only Live Twice.' I'll settle for that.

I've always been most drawn to fiction that wrestles with that death-fear. Sometimes I joke with my students, 'If no one is in danger of dying, I'm not interested,' but of course I'm not really joking.