Alice Hoffman Quotes

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.

I've worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know that death isn't out to get me.

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Birth was the death of him.

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

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

I remember as a kid having a balloon and accidentally letting the string go and watching it just float off and into the sky until it disappeared. And there's something about that, even, that feels very much like what life is, you know, that it's fleeting, and it's temporal.

You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

Treat Death as it treats us: with utter indifference.

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old... Your days are gone; it is part of life.

Death is an art, you know.

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.

Death is just a part of life, you know? It's what makes all of life more vibrant. It's coming whether we want to accept it or not.

Little soul, gentle and drifting, guest and companion of my body, now you will dwell below in pallid places, stark and bare; there you will abandon your play of yore. But one moment still, let us gaze together on these familiar shores, on these objects which doubtless we shall not see again....Let us try, if we can, to enter into death with open eyes.

I think we all lose in the end because we don't get to stay here forever.

I’m always feeling death, and that is a part of life. When you know a lot of people, you will always experience death.

Thus we live, forever taking leave.

And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea. But for now we are young; let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see.

I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.

The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death.

This is the time to remember cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold onto cause we won't although we'll want to.

For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves what man would lose.