Lucretia Mott Quotes

When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.

Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.

To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged.

Death is an inevitable cycle. But sickness before death is a symptom of resistance. Most people think they've got to get sick to die. But, you could be like the cat who chooses to get run over. Or, you could just lie down in your bed happily one night, so content and thoughtless, wanting nothing in this physical world; and just reemerge into Pure Positive Energy... You can play it out any way you choose.

It is important that when we come to die we have nothing to do but die.

I die pretty much every year. I find it amusing.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

When you're scared, you're still hanging on to life. When you're ready to die, you let it go. A sort of emptying out occurs, a giving up on the world that seems oddly familiar even if you've never done it before.

We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.

I think there is, in our society, there is a growing fear of death, a fear of the circumstances in which I might die, a fear I might be over-treated or under-treated. But fear is always a bad guide. Death is part of life.

I think ancient cultures incorporated death into the experience of life in a more natural way than we have done. In our obsessive focus on youth, on celebrity, our denial of death makes it harder for people who are grieving to find a place for that grief.

Treat Death as it treats us: with utter indifference.

Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.

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.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Death is an art, you know.

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

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

I don't think death is a negative thing at all. I think it can be very positive.

No one can avoid death; it is inevitable. Therefore, I should create in my mind a kind of willingness and accepting for that event without any fear.

I'm not scared of death anymore.

Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.

The dying man doesn't struggle much and he isn't much afraid. As his alkalies give out he succumbs to a blest stupidity. His mindfogs. His will power vanishes. He submits decently. He scarcely gives a damn.