Anne Enright Quotes

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

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

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

Obviously, we're all going to die at some point. Whether or not we are fated to die in some way I think is debatable. I just don't know which side to debate.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

That's the worst health condition you can have, not being alive.

The reason for such an “unreasonable” attitude with me is that I am not at all sure what will happen to me after death. I have good reasons to assume that things are not finished with death. Life seems to be an interlude in a long story.

Once you're alive, you can't ever be dead.

If everything that ever lived is dead, and everything alive is gonna die...where does the sacred part come in?

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history... Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.

Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.

Death is only a small interruption.

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.

In a more universal sense, we only get one thing. You know...a head stone if we're lucky; if not, green grass.

I guess I don't believe that death is the end.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.

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

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.