Raymond Moody Quotes

I don't want to hear about my death.

I feel like I don't watch that many shows with death.

Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.

I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

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.

The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow confronts us with the prospect of our own deaths, draws our own deaths closer and makes them more real and thinkable.

Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.

It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

Death always seems to be around me.

Death is a monster; death is horrible.

Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking.

I don't believe dying's a sad thing.

Death is an absolute marvel.

Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it.

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted 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.

The thing about death is that it's honest.

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

I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.