Nora Ephron Quotes

I've always been fascinated by dark subjects, especially people's reactions to them. Why are people so uncomfortable talking about death if everyone dies?

I got this feeling I'm gonna die before I get old. I don't know why. I just have this feeling.

I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.

I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!

I've always thought that if my death was imminent, I would read. When I can't focus on a book, I tend to keep reading the same page. My guess is, I would've read, like the first page of Nicholas Nickleby over and over again.

I'm forty four; I'm way closer to dead than I am life of the party.

Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that it is death itself that motivates them to do the best things in their lives. They are afraid to step into the dark, afraid of the unknown, and their only way of conquering that fear is to ignore the fact that their days are numbered. They do not see that with an awareness of death, they would be able to be even more daring, to go much further in their daily conquests, because then they would have nothing to lose- for death itself is inevitable.

I will die Before My Time. Because I feel the shadow's Depth. So much I wanted to accomplish. before I reached my Death

The last thing in the world that I would want to know, in my own life, is when I'm going to pass away.

I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.

I don't mean to imply that I'm afraid of Death. I'm just not ready to go out on a date with him.

I read once, somewhere, that the way you know you've grown up is when your future death becomes a stone in your shoe: when you feel it with every step.

There will come a time when nobody reads my books and no one remembers who I was. And in the meantime, I'll do it my way.

I used to think the only way to be truly alive is to confront your mortality.

I've come to look upon death the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems to get through it all right, so it couldn't be too difficult for me.

Most books are bought by women.

Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die.

When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.

Be glad you're even alive.' Be furious you're going to die.

I was afraid you had deceased,' he said. 'Or gotten engrossed in a long book.

he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.

I only mean to say that I have a feeling that it never was intended I should live long. I'm not like the rest of you.

Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible!

The Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger (tutor to Nero) complained that his peers were wasting time and money accumulating too many books, admonishing that "the abundance of books is a distraction." Instead, Seneca recommended focusing on a limited number of good books, to be read thoroughly and repeatedly.

I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast.