Curtis Jackson Quotes

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 you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

People always ask me, 'Lech, aren't you afraid of being killed?' And as an answer I shrug my shoulders.

As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

I've become pretty philosophical about a lot of things, including death. It doesn't get to me.

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!

Bod shrugged. "So?" he said. "It's only death. I mean, all of my best friends are dead.

Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right.

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.

Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would be nothing left for me to do, the task of living having been accomplished.

I think about dying every day, because I can't stop thinking about living.

Do you think that people ever really do believe they will die, that the world will just go along as always without them? I wonder if we aren't all a little surprised at the moment of crossover, if we don't look back over our shoulders saying, Now hold on.

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.

There’s an old Ritadarion saying. You’re never more alive than when you walk hand in hand with death. (Syn)

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

I am not afraid to die. I simply do not want to.

From the very early days of seeing patients, I noticed that many of them seemed to be concerned with issues of their mortality, and so the philosophy training I had taken began to seem rather important to me.

I don't want to die, but I'm not afraid to.

Those who have known death from inside lose all fear of death.

I sat thinking how terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as incredible as living. One day we suddenly take the fact that we exist for granted - and then, yes, then we don’t think about it anymore until we are about to leave the world again.