Death Acceptance Quotes

I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

The best way to live above all fear of death is to die every morning before you leave your bedroom.

It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share. It is time to go.

It's not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It's like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death's terror. We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.

The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of life. Life in its becoming is always shedding death, and on the point of death. The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure - fearlessness and achievement.

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.

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.

Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

The years have gone by quickly. Death sits in the seat next to me. We make a lovely couple.

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.

We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.

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

Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.

Live while you live, then die and be done with.

We have a lot of fear around death, and I thought maybe I can help somebody... I want people to be less scared.

Now me and my brother go to see him some times but he don't have much to say anymore. So we sit on his headstone with a fifth of Jack D. Here's to a long line of sinners like me.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

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

We love death. The U.S. loves life. That is the difference between us two.

Don't fear god, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure

Don't live in fear of dying.