Culture Quote by Alan Watts

For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people…

— Michael Sheen

As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and…

— Alan Ball

We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.

— Naomi Watts

Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful…

— Eckhart Tolle

Since we're coming into a rebirth, and there's a consciousness of health, because the disease that is death, we are able to overcome that.

— Jimmy Cliff

“What’s depressing is that our cultural fear of dying makes it worse than it should be. It’s actually a meaningful part of life,”

— Gail D. Storey

A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die…

— Jean de la Bruyere

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

— Henry Fielding

“Furthermore, as the body suffers the horrors of disease and the pangs of pain, so we see the mind stabbed with anguish, grief and…

— Lucretius

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

— Henry Fielding

“Death is inevitable. But the meaning people attach to death, its causes and aftermath, is culturally given. Without meaning, without culture making sense of…

— Richard B. Lee

Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.

— W. Somerset Maugham