Eve Ensler Quotes

I don't ever want to get to the point where I don't think about death! You've got to swim in it, learn from it - embrace it!

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

So the first thing: become aware of death. Think about it, look at it, contemplate it. Do not be afraid, do not escape the fact. It is there and you cannot escape it! It has come into existence with you.

Only when you know how to die can you know how to live.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.

Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.

I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome, Pandora's box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.

Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.

Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it.

It is not desirable that we should live as in the constant atmosphere and presence of death; that would unfit us for life; but it is well for us, now and then, to talk with death as friend talketh with friend, and to bathe in the strange seas, and to anticipate the experiences of that land to which it will lead us. These forethinkings are meant, not to make us discontented with life, but to bring us back with more strength, and a nobler purpose in living.

I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.

Never fear Death for you will feel aroused by his sleep. Never cheat death or he will slap you with a sentence of misery for the defeat.

To learn to die is an heroic work.

I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.

Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death.

Only by being prepared for your death can you ever truly live.

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease or committing seppuku at the death of one’s master. And every day without fail one should consider himself as dead

Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

Live while you live, then die and be done with.

Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.

Life, the permission to know death.

knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us.

Even the bold will fly when they see Death drawing in close enough to end their life.

If thou expect death as a friend, prepare to entertain it; if thou expect death as an enemy, prepare to overcome it; death has no advantage, but when it comes a stranger.