Suzanne Collins Quotes

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.

. . . my bones they'll burn or bury. It'll be my death.

No matter who you are, you will be put abed at last with a shovel.

I began to think my time had come, as the saying is.

Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it.

I don't want to hear about my death.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.

I've got to say that is - the highest emotion of the human experience is going down in a plane knowing your going to die!

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

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.

Death always seems to be around me.

I would like to avoid dying if possible. I do like living! The worst, I think for me, though, would be a really bedridden death.

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

I am scared of death.

The whole idea of death is something that we tend to kind of really not deal with at all.

I think people don't think or talk about death very much. I don't think we're very open about it, at least in my experience.

I'm scared of having a messy end, but not dying itself. It's inevitable.

Even the stout of heart shrink when they see the approach of death.

Dying--shucks! If you kin handle the living, what's to be afraid of the dying?

Shun death, is my advice.

Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.