Sarah Dessen Quotes

He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life.

If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.

Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?

Death is the end of the fear of death. [...] To avoid it we must not stop fearing it and so life is fear. Death is time because time allows us to move toward death which we fear at all times when alive. We move around and that is fear. Movement through space requires time. Without death there is no movement through space and no life and no fear. To be aware of death is to be alive is to fear is to move around in space and time toward death.

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is a part of being alive, something we all share. We react against the possibility of loneliness, of death, of not having anything to hold on to. Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.

If there's a fire, I want to be there. Maybe because in being so close to death, I think I understand what it means to be truly alive.

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

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

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination.

That's the worst health condition you can have, not being alive.

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

Life is a four-letter word.

A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.

Without life there can be no action — no objects of pursuit — no restless desires — no tormenting passions. Hence it is that we fondly cling to it — that we dread its termination as the close, not of enjoyment, but of hope.

You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

One thing about pain: It proves you're alive.

Once you're alive, you can't ever be dead.

But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

I mean, we're all going to die. We know that on an intellectual level. We figure it out when we're still fairly young, and it scares us so badly that we convince ourselves we're immortal for more than a decade afterwards.

Time is the substance of which we are made

We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.

The primary Reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think.