death avoidance Quotes

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.

I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Who do you think was smarter, Jesus or Buddha? I mean, just in terms of not letting themselves get crucified.

I don't want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That's my advice - don't die.

Lots of death, huh? Personally, I'm trying to avoid lots of death, but you guys have fun!

It's the same with men as with horses and dogs, nothing wants to die.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

Somehow, in my head, I don't think I'll die. I know that everybody dies, of course. I just think that it'll never come to me. It's crazy, but there it is.

But everybody is afraid of death; that too is contagious. Your parents are afraid of death, your neighbors are afraid of death. Small children start getting infected by this constant fear all around. Everybody is afraid of death. People don't even want to talk about death.

Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living.

Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A.; if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.

Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?

I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.

Technology as the knack of eliminating the world as resistance,... the technologist's worldlessness.... My mistake lay in the factthat we technologists try to live without death.

But I knew Nick. He was too ugly to die.

I would like to live forever if it was possible.

I am a serial denier. I try not to be. I tell myself, 'You are going to die.' I repeat it. I grasp it for a second or two, but then it escapes me, and I'm back to before.

When a Forsyte was engaged, married, or born, the Forsytes were present; when a Forsyte diedbut no Forsyte had as yet died; they did not die; death being contrary to their principles, they took precautions against it, the instinctive precautions of highly vitalised persons who resent encroachments on their property.

I spend my days preparing for life, not preparing for death.