Closer Quote by William T. Vollmann

I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom…

— Paulo Coelho

I've watched people I loved and grew up with grow old and die. Wow, it's very, very hard to come to grips with mortality.

— Soupy Sales

The understanding that we reach a point where we stop becoming something and start ending as something. That comes at different times in different…

— John Hodgman

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for…

— George Eliot

When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is…

— David Hare

It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been…

— Cate Blanchett

I do think, from what we know of people who've had near-death experiences, that they often feel a warmth, and a light and a…

— Jeremy Vine

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

— Simon McBurney

There is no such thing as death. We have all lived before and we are all going to experience new lives.

— Betty Shine

There is nothing compared to the feeling of losing life. The moment when you are close to death is nothing but a profound experience.

— Manisha Koirala

I had never experienced the death of someone close to me until my grandfather passed away.

— Megan Phelps-Roper

I believe there's more than this - that maybe, when we die, our brains conjure up some kind of shutdown experience, and that's what…

— Flying Lotus