Affront Quote by Susan Sontag

The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow…

— Raymond Moody

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not…

— Alan Ball

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact…

— Anonymous

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

— Jeanne Moreau

“Under conditions of a truly human existence, the difference between succumbing to disease at the age of ten, thirty, fifty, or seventy, and dying…

— Herbert Marcuse

Death is a confirmation of the believer's creed. For the skeptic it is discovery, immense and late.

— Calvin Miller

Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Death--a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of…

— Marcus Aurelius

The whole idea of death is something that we tend to kind of really not deal with at all.

— Holly Hunter

“Death is only dreadful for those who live in dread and fear of it. Death is not wild and terrible, if only we can…

— Eric Metaxas

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

“Death frightens us. When we see another person die, we are reminded that we are also mortal, that someday death will come to us.…

— R.C. Sproul