Anne Sexton Quotes

Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

Without death and decay, how could life go on?

There is no death! What seems so is transition; this life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal we call Death.

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

I would hate to be immortal forever.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.

Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

I think that, when you die, you go back to where you came from before you were born. So I don't think death is a bad thing.

I would hate the thought of dying full stop; I've got to be honest with you.

I'm never afraid to die. I think that's the best thing that can happen to somebody is they get to move on and do something better.