Marcus Luttrell Quotes

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

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.

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

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

I don't want to hear about my death.

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

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.

I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.

Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don't look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don't worry about it because it's going to happen to me as it does to anybody.

There's no point thinking about dying, because it's going to happen anyway, isn't it? I don't waste my time worrying about that.

No one gets out of here alive.

Only the dying man can tell how much time he has left.

If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested in getting myself to believe that it's going to happen to me. I'm interested in it, because if you're not, you're nuts. It's really de facto what we're here to find out about.

Everyone is going to die.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

We're all going to die.

We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow confronts us with the prospect of our own deaths, draws our own deaths closer and makes them more real and thinkable.

Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

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

I know that I am going to die, and I'm ready to do so.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.