Lauren DeStefano Quotes

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.

I have come to know that it [death] is an important thing to keep in mind - not to complain or to make melancholy, but simply because only with the honest knowledge that one day I will die I can ever truly begin to live.

Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it.

When I was young, the early death of my father cast a shadow over me - and I was afraid to die before all my literary plans came true. But between 30 and 40 years of age my attitude to death became quite calm and balanced. I feel it is a natural, but no means the final, milestone of one's existence.

If a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.

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

Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

Death is just a part of life, you know? It's what makes all of life more vibrant. It's coming whether we want to accept it or not.

I don't ever want to get to the point where I don't think about death! You've got to swim in it, learn from it - embrace it!

Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.

When I have conversations with people, for some strange reason they think I'm gonna die and they're not. But you know what? Death means nothing to me.

Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.

Life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life.

I'm rather relaxed about death. From quite an early age I've regarded it as part of the deal, the unwritten guarantee that comes with your birth certificate.

All people know that they will die, but they don't actually believe it.

I said to Life, I would hear Death speak. And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, You hear him now.

Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it.

Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.

I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.

Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.