Elena Anaya Quotes

Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A.; if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death!

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 don't want to hear about my death.

I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.

Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.

It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.

I would hate the thought of dying full stop; I've got to be honest with you.

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

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

Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking.

Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.

Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don't look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don't worry about it because it's going to happen to me as it does to anybody.

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

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.

What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality. It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else.

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.

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

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

I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.