Critical Quote by Angela Thirkell

Every day without fail one should consider himself as dead. There is a saying of the elders that goes, 'Step from under the eaves…

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

I think being dead isn't any problem. It's the process of dying which is quite off-putting.

— John Mortimer

This is what those who haven’t crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is dead may mean that…

— Julian Barnes

I guess that's the main thing when someone dies, the realisation that you won't get to be with them and talk to them.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they…

— Henry Rollins

I think all people are familiar with thinking about their death and trying to come to terms with the fact that we will, at…

— David Lowery

Some people rather die than be who they truly are. -Just Saying

— Ephrem Hardin

One of the things is that in times of severe disorder, you can't worry about the dead, only the living.

— Darren Shan

A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life.

— Anonymous

Sometimes a person has to be dead a while before people can appreciate what they did when they were alive.

— Curtis Armstrong

Personally, I am convinced the human personality does survive the change which we call death. Although we have no scientific evidence of this at…

— Jane Roberts

I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing.

— Simon McBurney