Anna Akana Quotes

Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

I think it would be wrong to consider 'Ashes and Fire' a love album. The record is obsessed with time. I believe that there is a kinder view of the self on this record.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!

When I was young, I used to be very frightened of getting older and of death. Now, I'm more resigned to the inevitability.

Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.

Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.

I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore.

It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first couple of years, and then the inevitable decline begins.

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

I know that I'm going to die and that you're going to die. I can't do anything about that. But I can explore it through a metaphor and make a kind of funny, dark story about it, and in doing so, really exhaust and research as many aspects of it as I can imagine. And in a way, that does give me some closure.

You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly.

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.

You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.

We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.