About Quote by Drew Gilpin Faust

We are all, always, the desire not to die. This desire is as immeasurable and varied as life's complexity, but at bottom this is…

— Henri Barbusse

Animals learn death first at the moment of death;...man approaches death with the knowledge it is closer every hour, and this creates a feeling…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed…

— Ernest Becker

Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of all awareness;…

— Epicurus

An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.

— Paulo Coelho

Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.

— Michael Haneke

Death is not the opposite of life but an innate part of life. By living our lives, we nurture death

— Haruki Murakami

You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will…

— G. Gordon Liddy

Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that the profound…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.

— Markus Zusak

It's not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It's like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand…

— Irvin D. Yalom

Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.

— Dorothee Solle