Stephen Crane Quotes

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.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

It's a weird feeling when you know you're going to die.

He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.

Death is something to savour, and I hope to savour mine.

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.

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.

Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.

At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death.

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

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.

I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.

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

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.

People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that's not how it works.

I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.

It is sensible of me to be aware that I will die one of these days. I will not 'pass away.'

I'm not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that's inevitable?

No one can avoid death; it is inevitable. Therefore, I should create in my mind a kind of willingness and accepting for that event without any fear.

Death is a reality, and one day I'm not going to be here anymore, and whatever's next might not be that bad either.

In this society, we don't like to face the future and the dying process and all of it. Most of us really don't want to think about it, but it's facing me in the mirror every day.