Jim Boeheim Quotes

I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.

Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.

I've worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know that death isn't out to get me.

I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage, but that - don't go to the funeral before the day of the funeral.

Death is something that I am still trying to figure out a healthy relationship with.

I'm 64 years old and, yeah, I went through a transition in my life last year, with the death of my son, that woke me up to a lot of things. You know, I'm perfectly happy in my own little groove. Marching along, building my company, and you know, a happy person.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Dealing with death is there forever, really, you know, because we all have to face it.

We have a lot of fear around death, and I thought maybe I can help somebody... I want people to be less scared.

I'm not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that's inevitable?

When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.

The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.

In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

We do have trouble dealing with death, but it's the one thing that is guaranteed we are all going to have to do, and we are going to have to face it many times before we die ourselves.

You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes.

Death belongs to the dying and those who love them.

I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.

Death is something that happens to others, you think, until it happens to you.

You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.

Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing.

Death is no different whined at than withstood.

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

Death is not my best subject.