Book Quote by Lance Morrow

“Most people regard death as the greatest of evils, only because they fear death. They fear death only because they have the instinct of…

— Kaiten Nukariya

I myself become terrified of death when I am in a negative state of mind. But the thought of death ceases to bother me…

— Hayao Miyazaki

“People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them…

— Diane Setterfield

I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life.

— Isabelle Eberhardt

Only a creature that can think symbolically about life can conceive of its own death. Our knowledge of death is part of our knowledge…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

“There's a psychological mechanism, I've come to believe, that prevents most of us from imagining the moment of our own death. For if it…

— Aleksandar Hemon

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

“What is personal death? Asking this question and pausing to look inward - isn't personal death a concept? Isn't there a thought-and-picture series going…

— Toni Packer

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the…

— Marcus Aurelius

“Death is a cessation of the impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the strings that move the appetites, and of the…

— Marcus Aurelius

It is not death we fear, but the thought of it.

— Seneca the Elder

The chief problem about death ... is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought.

— Woody Allen