Jennifer Connelly Quotes

I don't ever want to get to the point where I don't think about death! You've got to swim in it, learn from it - embrace it!

I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!

In my own works I am an obsessionist. Though I write humorous music too, much of it has been obsessed by death and the tragic.

Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it.

I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.

Only by being prepared for your death can you ever truly live.

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

I like death. I'm a big fan of it.

Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.

I love graveyards. To some, it might sound morbid, but there's nothing dark about the natural cycles of life, really.

You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that be must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.

If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

Life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life.

The living have their eyes opened by closing the eyes of the dead.

Death is a part of all our lives. Whether we like it or not, it is bound to happen. Instead of avoiding thinking about it, it is better to understand its meaning. We all have the same body, the same human flesh, and therefore we will all die. There is a big difference, of course, between natural death and accidental death, but basically death will come sooner or later. If from the beginning your attitude is 'Yes, death is part of our lives,' then it may be easier to face.

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.

Bod shrugged. "So?" he said. "It's only death. I mean, all of my best friends are dead.

Thank you, sir, but I am perfectly content being the bride of death.

Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist.

We figure out what death means when we're born, practically, and we live our whole lives in some kind of weird denial about it.

Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.

Everybody is afraid of death for the simple reason that we have not tasted of life yet. The man who knows what life is, is never afraid of death; he welcomes death. Whenever death comes he hugs death, he embraces death, he welcomes death, he receives death as a guest. To the man who has not known what life is, death is an enemy; and to the man who knows what life is, death is the ultimate crescendo of life.

I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.