Lana Del Rey Quotes

I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

It's a weird feeling when you know you're going to die.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

We keep making the same mistakes as a species, and you can usually draw it back to the fact that we are all terrified of dying. We also all think that we are going to escape it until we get to 65!

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

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

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

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!

We're the only species that can look into the future and know that we're going to die one day, and it causes all sorts of cognitive stress on your system.

Death doesn't frighten me, it bothers me. It bothers me for example that someone can be there tomorrow but me I am no longer there. What bothers me is no longer being alive, not being dead.

No young man ever thinks he shall die.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

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.

How can we live and die and never know the difference?

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.