Death Quote by Caitlin Doughty

“Really feeling your body move and the life inside of yourself is critical. Western culture is astoundingly disembodied and uniquely so.”

— Krista Tippett

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

“There is no longer any class outside the class of character, and no history to put your faith in. You can actually live as…

— Fanny Howe

“The culture of Death is everywhere.”

— commenting on the civil war in Burundi from The warrior's Honour Boutrous Boutrous Ghali by Michae

“Death: It is the greatest adventure. It is stunning that in western civilization we deny it to the degree that we do. Perhaps that…

— Eben Alexander

“Dying is one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.' ‘For one thing, the culture we have does not make people…

— Mitch Albom

“Miraculously recover or die. That's the extent of our cultural bandwidth for chronic illness.”

— S. Kelley Harrell

“Don’t you think it’s a little sick the way that most of the culture denies death? It’s there all the time, and most people…

— Trish Cook, Brendan Halpin

“Vitality is not the denial of mortality, but the grown-up way of facing it.”

— Susan Neiman

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to…

— Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai

“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

“For Man was a culture-bearer as well as a soul-bearer, but his cultures were not immortal and they could die with a race or…

— Walter M. Miller Jr