Dealing With Death Quotes - Page 2

• I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear.

  John Lydon

  Dad, Heart, Scare

  "Sex Pistols, 'posh boys' Cameron and Clegg, and those butter ads" by Michael Odell, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2010.

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• I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.

  Marcia Wallace

  Fear, Alzheimer's, Years

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• When your partner gets cancer, then life changes. Your timetable and reference for your normal routines and the way you view life, all this changes. Because you're dealing with death. You're dealing with the possibility of death and dying.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Life Changing, Cancer, Views

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• To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

  J. K. Rowling

  Death, Travel, Adventure

  J. K. Rowling (2002). “Spark Notes Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone”, Spark Notes

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• I wanted to look at how people deal with death. Why is Henry Kissinger not in jail and Charles Manson is?

  John Roecker

  Jail, People, Looks

  "John Roecker's 'Freaky' Puppet Show" by Christina Talcott, www.washingtonpost.com. January 27, 2006.

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• When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.

  Allen Klein

  Humor, Events, Sagging

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• The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

  Willie Morris

  Friendship, Family, Dog

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• For me as a writer, it was understanding that we're so far behind in our way of dealing with death. We put someone in the ground, we bury them or we burn them, and then we're supposed to just move on and kind of get over it.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Moving, Understanding, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't deal with death very well. My brother, John Candy, my dad, my mom, Brandon Tartikoff just a couple of weeks ago. I mean, you lose a lot of people in your life, and that's one thing I am constantly working on - pain management.

  James Belushi

  Mom, Brother, Couple

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• All of us have to deal with death at one time or another, but to have in one's heart a solid conviction concerning the reality of eternal life is to bring a sense of peace in an hour of tragedy that can come from no other source under the heavens

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Heart, Reality, Heaven

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• For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dream, Sleep

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• I asked my mum, who's a very clever psychotherapist, and she says that kids love stories about death; they need it, they need to have stories that deal with death and explain it, as a place to put their fears.

  Roald Dahl

  Clever, Kids, Needs

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• How we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life.

  James Kirk

  Important, Captain Kirk, Deals

  "Fictional character: James Kirk". "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan", www.imdb.com. 1982.

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• I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome, Pandora's box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Death, Men, Anxiety

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• We do have trouble dealing with death, but it's the one thing that is guaranteed we are all going to have to do, and we are going to have to face it many times before we die ourselves.

  Katherine Paterson

  Faces, Trouble, Dies

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• I suppose I am gently cynical about notions of who we think we are, but I certainly don't hate my fellow man. I think my cinema, although it might often deal with death and decay, is highly celebratory.

  Peter Greenaway

  Hate, Men, Thinking

  "Maybe I'm too clever". Interview With Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2004.

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• I had to deal with death at a really young age.

  Emmanuelle Chriqui

  Age, Young, Deals

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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