Ryan Gosling Quotes

I like death. I'm a big fan of 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 don't want to hear about my death.

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

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.

No doubt many people have the feeling that to talk about death at all is, in effect, to conjure it up mentally, to bring it closer in such a way that one has to face up to the inevitability of one's own eventual demise. So, to spare ourselves this psychological trauma, we decide just to try to avoid the topic as much as possible.

People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that's not how it works.

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

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

Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.

I don't believe dying's a sad thing.

Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.

In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things.

I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death!

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.

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.

My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach.

Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.

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

I think I want to talk about life from the point of view of death.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

I'm not afraid of death at all.

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

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.