Elizabeth Kim Quotes

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.

How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.

I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

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

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than 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.

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

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life.

Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all!

Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.

Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.

Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in the years or months before death.

I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death!

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

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.