Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

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

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.

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.

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

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

I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die.

My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son's perspective.

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

There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older might be overcome.

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!

If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.

I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put if off as long as we can. But it makes very little difference. So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.

We figure out what death means when we're born, practically, and we live our whole lives in some kind of weird denial about it.

Never fear Death for you will feel aroused by his sleep. Never cheat death or he will slap you with a sentence of misery for the defeat.

He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

YOU FEAR TO DIE? "It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break.

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.

Death grows friendlier as we grow older.

One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.

It doesn't take that many years for a kid to realise that they're going to die. It's always there in the back of their mind the rest of their lives.

In your teens and twenties, death doesn't exist. In your thirties, you glance down the road occasionally. But then in your forties, it becomes a full-time job looking the other way.

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