Conor Oberst Quotes

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

Ten out of ten people die. You start thinking about that and it really makes you start to ask the big questions: Where did I come from? Where am I going when I die? What happens when we step out of here? What's out there?

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

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

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

We used to think earthly life was horrible and paradise awaited us when we died. Now we have made earthly life into a paradise and we fear death.

Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

I guess this is gonna sound kind of weird, but I'm not scared for myself for dying. Because I believe all these places are temporary. This is just one shell. Because we Hawaiians live in both worlds.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet.

When you are raised Catholic, there is one thing that you are confronted with at a young age, and that's death. You're confronted with all the big issues - and that sparks deep questions, like what the hell are we doing here, anyway?

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Death is either an incredible ending to a story or, more often than not if you ask the right questions, it's the beginning of a story.

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.