“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If the denial of death is self-hatred, as it is to deny our freedom and live in fear of death (which is… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
It is the denial of death that is partially responsible for people living empty, purposeless lives; for when you live as if… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
The denial of death is openly acknowledged as a significant trait of our culture. The tears of the bereaved have become comparable… — Philippe Aries Copy Share Image
With actors, all our ages are out there for all to see - you can't hide anything, really. And it's kind of… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
The woe of mortality makes humans God-like. It is because we know that we must die that we are so busy making… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“An artistic image is one that ensures its own development, its historical viability. An image is a grain, a self-evolving retroactive organism.… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Not one people has ever yet organised itself according to the principles of science and reason. Never has there been a single… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“As Ernest Becker observes in The Denial of Death, the very thought of disobeying authority appears to awaken the anxiety connected with… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
“Suicide is an attack on society--an attack on its omnipotence, on its denial of death, and on its own despair.” — Robert E. Neale Copy Share Image
I think ancient cultures incorporated death into the experience of life in a more natural way than we have done. In our… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer.… — Jacques Lipchitz Copy Share Image
Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
“Death would be an extremely bad thing like most of us paint it, if being dead were painful.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
