Mickalene Thomas Quotes

None of us, in our culture of comfort, know how to prepare ourselves for dying, but that's what we should do every day. Every single day, we die a thousand deaths.

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.

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.

I realise how precious life is, probably because I've seen how it can be taken away.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

While we walking, while we breathing, we dying... I be really feeling like, even though we live to die, some people be dying to live.

Every time someone in your life dies, you realize you're not invincible and you have to wonder if we're celebrating life or if we're mourning a death.

And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to die one day. And before that his friends wil die, and the friends of his friends, and, as time passes, the children of his friends, and, if his fate is truly bitter, his own children. (58)

If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested in getting myself to believe that it's going to happen to me. I'm interested in it, because if you're not, you're nuts. It's really de facto what we're here to find out about.

Loss doesn't feel redeemable. But for me one consoling aspect is the recognition that, in this at least, none of us is different from anyone else: We all lose loved ones; we all face our own death.

The Rebel bullet that can kill me has not yet been molded.

I had gone through a near-death experience, and that gives you an insight into how fleeting life is, and what's important.

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

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.

I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

When a loved one passes, there are mixed emotions, and a thirst to live one's own life more deeply can certainly be among them.

I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

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