Anne Carson Quotes

Death is nothing to fear. It is only another dimension.

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.

Everybody is going to die, so people are enthralled by the possibility that they don't have to completely die, that there is something that comes afterward. It's like if you're going to France for the summer, you're going to read up on it. Everyone just wants to know where they're going, or if they're going anywhere.

I'm always curious about what happens when we die. And I'd like to think that somehow the spirit goes on. I'd rather not think that it's just about this.

We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.

Here's what happens when you die--you sit in a box and get eaten by worms. I guarantee you that when you die, nothing cool happens.

I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.

maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us--

Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are like the strainings of the Costive at stool.

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

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

Because there is a larger awareness that transcends time and space, an awareness is available after death.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Sometimes I would make myself very still and try to imagine myself dead. I tried to invoke the feeling of the very last breath I would take.

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

Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.

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

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.'

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

I'm never afraid to die. I think that's the best thing that can happen to somebody is they get to move on and do something better.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.