Lance Armstrong Quotes

Some people are paralyzed by the consciousness of death, other people live with it.... The fatwa certainly made me think about it a lot more than I ever had. I guess I know I'm going to die, but then, so are you.

At best you can hold death at bay, you can pretend it isn't there; but to deny it totally is a sickness. And I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems, and, perversely perhaps, to enjoy a vicarious confrontation with them.

I know mortality exists, but I cannot do anything about it. So it does not make me anxious.

I mean, we're all going to die. We know that on an intellectual level. We figure it out when we're still fairly young, and it scares us so badly that we convince ourselves we're immortal for more than a decade afterwards.

Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.

What can they suffer that do not fear to die?

Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

Don't get all sentimental on me, Makes me think I'm gonna die.

... there is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.

And I said to myself that unless you conceive Death to be a violent guerrilla and kidnaper who snatches those you love, and if you are not cowardly and cannot submit to such terrorism as civilized people now do in every department of life, you must pursue and inquire and explore every possibility and seek everywhere and try everything.

Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.

We are so afraid of the idea of having to die... that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn.

I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in the years or months before death.

Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm.

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

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

Only by a frank discussion of the very details of dying can we best deal with those aspects that frighten us the most. It is by knowing the truth... that we rid ourselves of that fear of the terra incognita of death.

I've worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know that death isn't out to get me.

If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.

I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear.

I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.

No doubt many people have the feeling that to talk about death at all is, in effect, to conjure it up mentally, to bring it closer in such a way that one has to face up to the inevitability of one's own eventual demise. So, to spare ourselves this psychological trauma, we decide just to try to avoid the topic as much as possible.

People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.