Laura Wade Quotes

I like death. I'm a big fan of it.

Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.

I think there is, in our society, there is a growing fear of death, a fear of the circumstances in which I might die, a fear I might be over-treated or under-treated. But fear is always a bad guide. Death is part of life.

I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.

I've always been fascinated with death and darkness, and I still am.

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.

I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.

I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.

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

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.

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

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.

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died.

I am not afraid to die. I simply do not want to.

I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!

It is better to die once than to be always in fear of death.

In western culture, we have ignored death. We're running the other way - everything is about life and youth. So, there's something resonant about walking around with our own death masks. Zombies are the visible embodiment of death staring at us with our own faces.

Society has a fascination with death.

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

To be in touch with death, and the darker side of life, makes the lighter side more enjoyable.

I do sometimes talk about my cancer because that's something people relate to a lot, as we're all going to die. Because I've been close to death and won, I have strong opinions about it, and I've learned how to discuss it and keep the energy high in the show.

In my own works I am an obsessionist. Though I write humorous music too, much of it has been obsessed by death and the tragic.

I'm scared of having a messy end, but not dying itself. It's inevitable.