Sebastian Junger Quotes

I wasn't gonna make it. I had come to terms that I was gonna die, and I was very sure of that.

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.

My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach.

You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes.

I'm not afraid of death at all.

At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

I like death. I'm a big fan of it.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

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

There comes a time when you have to shut it off, let it go, and say it's not going to happen.

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

Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?

Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but only "I have given it back." Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is your wife dead? She has been returned.

People speak of a will to live. They rarely speak of a will to die. Because people are afraid of death. Death is dark and unknown and frightening. But not for me. It is not the end.

We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness

If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.

I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.

It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say.

There's not a higher stake than someone having to face their own death.

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.

To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed.

I don't want to hear about my death.

I have inhaled, exhaled everything.