mortality avoidance Quotes

My existence from day to day has become a matter of averting my eyes, of cringing. Death is the only truth left. Death is what I cannot bear to think. At every moment when I am thinking of something else, I am not thinking death, am not thinking the truth.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.

Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die because they know not how to prevent dying.

You believe that you're going to be forever young.

I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.

Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.

Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

Shun death, is my advice.

In America, burial means an embalmed body in a heavy-duty casket with a vault built over it, so that the ground doesn't settle. That body is encased in many layers of denial.