Hubert Selby Jr. Quotes

Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it.

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

We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.

It's a weird feeling when you know you're going to die.

The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel.

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

Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.

You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive.

Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are like the strainings of the Costive at stool.

All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

Many, if not most, Americans can imagine a fate worse than death, and it is a seemingly interminable process of dying. For them, it is frightening that politicians can find ways to interject themselves into this sad process.

Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.

To live is to die.

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

Of course, there are diseases of which people die.

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

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That's a tough thing to face.

You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.

All I can say is, death is a part of life.

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.

Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.