Death Perception Quotes

How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.

Death is not painful. It is the most beautiful experience you will have.

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

Being dead's only a problem if you know you're dead, which you never do because you're dead!

A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world.

Death in my mind isn't a finality. There's a continuum: It's like at night, you go to sleep and in the daytime you wake up, or whenever you wake up, and it's a new day.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?

I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.

It's not the loss of life that makes the death bitter -- it's the obituaries.

I've always liked monster movies and I've always been fascinated by - again, growing up in a culture where death was looked upon as a dark subject and living so close to Mexico where you see the Day of the Dead with the skeletons and it's all humor and music and dancing and a celebration of life in a way. That always felt more of a positive approach to things. I think I always responded to that more than this dark, unspoken cloud in the environment I grew up in.

If I were dead, I would be the last to know.

We didn't have any books at home. Not even children's books or fairy tales. The only 'fantastic' stories came from religion class. And I took them all very literally, that God sees everything, and so I felt I was always being watched. Or that dead people were in Heaven right over our village.

It's like a lot of kids; when you tell them someone's died, they laugh.

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

How can we live and die and never know the difference?

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?" "I guess it depends on how you die.

I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.

Frankly, I'm not much for funerals unless it's absolutely an obligation. I don't feel it serves much of a purpose to go and see my friends just lying there, dead. I try to pay my respects to my friends when they're alive.

There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.

There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others.

Even death is wonderful because, as Woody Allen says, we're not going to know when it happens.