Ridley Pearson Quotes

There's not a higher stake than someone having to face their own death.

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

It is better to die once than to be always in fear of death.

At the age of 31, I realized, 'Oh my God, I may die like everyone else.'

life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?

For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow confronts us with the prospect of our own deaths, draws our own deaths closer and makes them more real and thinkable.

I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.

People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.

People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that's not how it works.

Life is a hurdle and you'll never clear it. Death is the end of the ride and you fear it.

Anything that has to deal with our mortality is always going to be interesting to us. Life and death is always going to be something that draws our attention.

But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.

I think about dying every day, because I can't stop thinking about living.

What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?

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.

If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested in getting myself to believe that it's going to happen to me. I'm interested in it, because if you're not, you're nuts. It's really de facto what we're here to find out about.

I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death!

I have a rendezvous with life.

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.

In your teens and twenties, death doesn't exist. In your thirties, you glance down the road occasionally. But then in your forties, it becomes a full-time job looking the other way.