Roger Caras Quotes

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.

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.

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

We all have to die some day. Not very many immortals have shown up in this world.

Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking.

We're all immortal until we die.

Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.

Love is a mistake when we're all going to die any day now.

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!

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.

Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.

Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.