Alice James Quotes

I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.

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

We do have trouble dealing with death, but it's the one thing that is guaranteed we are all going to have to do, and we are going to have to face it many times before we die ourselves.

I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage, but that - don't go to the funeral before the day of the funeral.

I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Death is a fearful thing.

Death belongs to the dying and those who love them.

Death is something that happens to others, you think, until it happens to you.

You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.

Dealing with death is there forever, really, you know, because we all have to face it.

I started doing a Twitter feed when my father was dying. I was very distracted, preoccupied. It was upsetting.

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

I've never seen anyone die. It's hard to imagine what it would be like.

We're all, whether we like it or not, gonna have to deal with bereavement at some point in our lives, and it's something I think, as a society, maybe we shy away from.

Me, I'm not a guy who's dealt with a lot of death in my life, so when it hits you, it hits hard, you question different things.

I'm less interested in death itself than in people whose lives are touched by it.

We'll bury our mothers and fathers - shuttling our children off for sleepovers, jumping on red-eyes, telling eachother stories that hurt to hear, about gasping, agonal breaths, hospice nurses, scars and bruises and scabs, and how skin papers shortly after a person passes. We will nod in agreement that it is as much an honor to witness a person leave this world as it is to watch a person come into it.

When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.

Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.

The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.

The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die.

I think, in real life, when we're facing death - that is, when we come out on the other side of it, whether it's death of a friend or a family member - you come out on the other side of the mourning cherishing your life that much more.

You get to an age when you lose people close to you.

It's been difficult for me to get my head around Diana's death or talk about it. After she died, things were difficult, very difficult. We all have our own traumas and get on with it. But when it's there in your face year in, year out, it's hard.