Lytton Strachey Quotes

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

Come to think of it, Pasadena's as good a place to die as any.

Maybe I haven't been tested, but I have no fear of death at all. I was with Allen Ginsberg during the last year of his life, and he called all his friends and said, 'I'm on my way out, and it's kind of exciting.' I see it as kind of exciting, too.

Death. It doesn't have to be boring.

In this society, we don't like to face the future and the dying process and all of it. Most of us really don't want to think about it, but it's facing me in the mirror every day.

I don't think I've ever been particularly scared of death - but scared of dying, the process. It doesn't seem to be a good way of doing it.

We look at death from the selfish side, like: "That guy died. Oh, it's so sad." Why is it sad? He's away from all of this bad stuff that's here on Earth. I mean, at the worst, he's just somewhere quiet, no nothing. At best, he's an angel... or he's a spirit somewhere. What is so bad about that?

It is foolish to be afraid of death. Just think. No more repaired tires on the body vehicle, no more patchwork living.

Death would not be called bad, o people, if one knew how to truly die.

He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

I think about dying every day, because I can't stop thinking about living.

And may we find when ended is the page, Death but a tavern on our pilgrimage.

I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at the door.

When we think of death, we often imagine it as happening in degrees: We think of a sick person becoming less and less alive until finally they are gone.

I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect.

Dying ain't in people's plans, is it?

Death should take me while I am in the mood.

She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could never have an intelligent discussion on the subject. People were either too young or too old, or else they didn't have time.

Everybody dies, Sally. The thing is to die well.

We have only one way to be born and many ways to die.

The last thing in the world that I would want to know, in my own life, is when I'm going to pass away.

I've come to look upon death the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems to get through it all right, so it couldn't be too difficult for me.

After all dying is one of the most profound and difficult experiences we have.

Death means you are in the third person.

It has become, in my view, a bit too trendy to regard the acceptance of death as something tantamount to intrinsic dignity. Of course I agree with the preacher of Ecclesiastes that there is a time to love and a time to die - and when my skein runs out I hope to face the end calmly and in my own way. For most situations, however, I prefer the more martial view that death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.