Top 100 Afraid Of Dying Quotes
#1. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid I'll never get a chance to live!
A.A. Bell
#2. They take away your options and all you can do is live, and it's just like Humble said: I'm not afraid of dying; I'm afraid of living. I was afraid before, but I'm afraid even more now that I'm a public joke.
Ned Vizzini
#3. He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn't yet lived.
Franz Kafka
#4. The Society wants us to be afraid of dying. But I'm not. I'm only afraid of dying wrong.
Ally Condie
#5. Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?
Taisen Deshimaru
#6. I don't like travelling. Which is ridiculous. And it's not because I'm afraid of dying on the plane or anything. I just like to stay at home.
Rachel Weisz
#7. You shouldn't be afraid of dying, Sarah - everyone does it. The only thing to be scared of is not living before you do.
Emma Chase
#8. If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or is a Gurkha.
Sam Manekshaw
#9. I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of living.
Ned Vizzini
#10. He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
French philosopher and writer.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#11. People believe in life after death because they are afraid of dying... But I do not believe in life after death BECAUSE I am afraid of dying.
Hiroshi Yamamoto
#12. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid I haven't been alive enough. It should be written on every school room blackboard: Life is a playground - or nothing.
Jaco Van Dormael
#13. I'm not afraid of dying, but I want to die a different way, any other way.
Veronica Roth
#14. I have never been afraid of dying, I have only been afraid of not living fully.
Jeffrey Fry
#15. If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.
Kurt Cobain
#16. Most people are so afraid of dying they never live.
Steven Kotler
#17. I'm not afraid of dying I'm afraid of not trying
Jay-Z
#18. I don't know why people are so afraid of dying. It only takes a moment.
Nikolai Grozni
#19. It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance. It is the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give. And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
Bette Midler
#20. I would like to grow less afraid of dying. I am infinitely less afraid today than I was 15 or 25 years ago. I was most afraid of dying when I was 33, because I come from a Catholic family.
Sidney Poitier
#21. Doc, I'm not afraid of dying; I'm only afraid of living, and I want to put this bayonet through my stomach,
Ned Vizzini
#22. We're afraid to live, because we're afraid of dying.
Dolly Parton
#23. We are afraid that we have not lived.
We are not afraid of dying.
Allen Tate
#24. Why?' she whispered.
He didn't need her to elaborate; he knew what she was asking. 'I don't want you to be afraid of dying. All those people have survuved cancer. You just watched hundreds of reasons to have hope drift off into the sky.
M. Leighton
#25. Aren't you afraid of dying?
Not really. I've watched lots of good-for-nothing, worthless people die, and if people like that can do it, then I should be able to handle it.
Haruki Murakami
#26. I'm not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
Stanley Kubrick
#27. I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect.
Kathe Kollwitz
#28. I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.
Derek Jarman
#29. One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.
Dustin Hoffman
#30. I used to be afraid of dying. Now I'm afraid of not living. There's a difference. We go through life planning for a future, but sometimes that future never comes.
Neal Shusterman
#31. If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
Ted Turner
#32. I want to live forever, and I know I won't. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm only afraid of one thing: not being able to raise my kids.
Kevin Costner
#33. I'm not afraid of dying. Pieces of me die all the time.
Sage Francis
#34. I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.
Chuck Yeager
#35. If she had to, she would do it - but that didn't mean she wasn't afraid of dying. Everyone was afraid of dying.
Annette Marie
#36. I don't believe in God, so I'm not afraid of dying.
B.F. Skinner
#37. If people are not afraid of dying, why threaten them with death?
Laozi
#38. I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly.
Henning Mankell
#39. Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself.
Thomas Pynchon
#40. Wasn't afraid of dying because dying had always been somewhere in our house, somewhere so close, we could feel the wind of it on our cheeks.
Jacqueline Woodson
#41. Are you afraid of dying, Ferris?'
'I'm afraid of not living.
Maria McCann
#42. I'm kind of like a samurai. They say if you want to be a samurai, you can't be afraid of dying, and as soon as you flinch, you get your head cut off. I'm not afraid of losing this business.
Yvon Chouinard
#43. He wasn't afraid of death, but he was afraid of dying before he accomplished his purposes.
Brent Weeks
#44. She was a dead girl having the worst panic attack shed ever had. Not because she was afraid of dying, but because she knew that she would never live again.
Tonya Hurley
#45. I'm only afraid of dying if I'm to be held accountable for what I did while living. If there's no God or reckoning, I'm like, whew!
Dana Gould
#46. You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood.
Tyne Daly
#47. I discovered that people are not really afraid of dying; they're afraid of not ever having lived, not ever having deeply considered their life's higher purpose, and not ever having stepped into that purpose and at least tried to make a difference in this world.
Joseph Jaworski
#48. When I asked her what was the matter? answered, she didn't know; but she felt so afraid of dying!
Emily Bronte
#49. We don't have to be afraid of dying because it's not really death that scares us. We are afraid of not having lived.
Harold S. Kushner
#50. I'm not afraid of dying; I'm only afraid of living,
Ned Vizzini
#51. But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.
Joy Harjo
#52. She'd long ago learned that only those with something to lose were afraid of dying.
Jennifer Donnelly
#53. If you are afraid of dying then you are afraid of living.
Hiroaki Aoki
#54. In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity.
Jean Baudrillard
#55. You wanted to live." "No," he shot back. "I was afraid of dying.
J.R. Ward
#56. I'm a very ordinary man who's worked and fed like everyone else. I'm no longer afraid of dying, but death doesn't seem to want anything to do with me, now that I can see no point in living. I'm afraid he's forgotten me.
Emile Zola
#57. When the forms of an old culture are dying,
the new culture is created by a few people who are not afraid to be insecure.
Rudolf Bahro
#59. At every stage in life you think about death. But teenagers especially are sort of invincible. They're not supposed to be thinking about dying yet, or else they'd be too afraid to live.
Claire Danes
#60. Part of being alive is having life change us. The people around us, the events we live through, all of them shape us. And that's what I think you're afraid of. Maybe not of dying. But of this you, the you you've become, ceasing to exist.
Amie Kaufman
#62. I'm still afraid of being totally honest. I'm more afraid of this than dying.
Natsuo Kirino
#63. I dropped my eyes, kneading the dying flesh of his feet between my fingers. For a moment, I felt afraid, as if accepting his words would somehow betray my own father. But when I looked up, I saw Morrie smiling through tears and I knew there was no betrayal in a moment like this. All
Mitch Albom
#64. I'm afraid of failing. I'm afraid of letting this opportunity pass us by. And I'm afraid of what happens if nothing in this world ever changes." He turns hot under my touch, driven by an inner resolve. "That scares me more than dying.
Victoria Aveyard
#65. Dying
shucks! If you kin handle the living, what's to be afraid of the dying?
Robert Penn Warren
#66. I'm not afraid to fail ... I'm scared to death of dying and having the Lord say to me, 'Angelica, this is what you might have done had you trusted more.
Mother Angelica
#67. We are so afraid of the idea of having to die ... that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn ...
Jose Saramago
#68. I truly believe I am not afraid of death. What I shrink from, I believe, is the shame of dying as stupid and befuddled as I am.
J.M. Coetzee
#69. It is not death I fear, not anymore. I've faced dying too many times to be afraid of it.
Victoria Aveyard
#71. I used to be very afraid of flying. It would creep me out and make me very tense and very uncomfortable, and I would sweat or even cry. I was very, very scared of dying, but I'm not anymore. Fears need to be indulged, in order to exist. I don't have much time to indulge in any fears.
Franka Potente
#72. Most of us were not afraid of death, only of the act of dying; and there were times when we overcame even this fear. At such moments we were free-men without shadows, dismissed from the ranks of the mortal; it was the most complete experience of freedom that can be granted a man.
Arthur Koestler
#73. I hope I'm worthy in my dying. I hope I can maintain myself - that I wouldn't become pathetic and needy, and the worst part of myself come out in adversity. But I'm not afraid of it. It'd be such a silly thing to do! To ruin the life you have by fearing its ending.
Brendan Gleeson
#74. There are two things I am afraid of. One is dying young. The other is Johnny Monroe.
Susan Gabriel
#75. Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?
Saul Williams
#76. I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
Ingvar Kamprad
#77. Mare?"
"Are you afraid, Maven?"
"I am. I'm afraid of failing. I'm afraid of letting this opportunity pass us by. And I'm afraid of what happens if nothing in this world ever changes. That scares me more than dying.
Victoria Aveyard
#78. I think my biggest fear is dying. Although sometimes my biggest fear is not dying. But yeah, I think health stuff for me is more what I'm afraid of.
Kathleen Hanna
#79. Don't you be afraid, sweetheart. Death is just a part of life, something we're all destined to do.
Sally Field
#80. The worst thing of all would be to disgrace himself. He was more afraid of that than of dying.
Ken Follett
#81. I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day.
Osamu Dazai
#82. How she still thought of Max every day and it was like someone had emptied her lungs of air, and she would catch at her heart, afraid she was dying.
Cassandra Clare
#83. I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. We're loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.
Jennifer Lopez
#84. I'm just trying to wake up - I'm so afraid of sleeping all my life and then dying - I want to wake up first. I wouldn't care if it was just for an hour, as long as I was properly alive and awake ...
Philip Pullman
#85. Monroe, the consummate sexual doll, is empowered to act but afraid to act, perhaps because no amount of acting, however inspired,can convince the actor herself that her ideal female life is not a dreadful form of dying.
Andrea Dworkin
#86. Sometimes people are very worried about dying. There is no need to be afraid. when the moment of your dying comes, you will be given everything that you need to make that journey in a graceful, elegant, and trusting way.
John O'Donohue
#87. Can you not see death as the friend and deliverer? It means stripping off that body which is tormenting you. What are you afraid of? Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave it with regret?
C.S. Lewis
#88. Dying really isn't so bad after you've done it once. And I have. I'm not afraid of death anymore. I'm afraid of everything else.
Katja Millay
#89. Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.
Isabel Allende
#90. Do not be afraid Everyone before you has died You cannot stay Any more than a baby can stay forever in the womb Leave behind all you know All you love Leave behind pain and suffering This is what Death is. - The Book of Living and Dying (The Tibetan Book of the Dead)
Christopher Moore
#91. I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.
Stephen Rea
#92. Some people are scared of dying. Never be afraid to die. Because you're born to die.
Walter Breuning
#93. What is there possibly left for us to be afraid of, after we have dealt face to face with death and not embraced it? Once I accept the existence of dying as a life process, who can ever have power over me again?
Audre Lorde
#94. To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.
Francis Quarles
#95. People are afraid of immortality because they believe they won't find something to do and will get bored! What to do if we become immortal? We can just walk! It is better than dying!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#96. I am not afraid to die; I am only afraid of saying goodbye to you forever.
Shannon L. Alder
#97. Before we're born we've all of us been dead for millions of years...but we're always afraid of going back...
Leonardo Donofrio
#98. I was afraid of the pain of dying and terribly reluctant to leave the world behind because I liked life a lot, even if it had been pretty tough sometimes.
Alexander Dolgun
#99. Can I have a final request in case I don't make it?"
"Anything."
"I haven't been kissed in five years, kiss me Trajan," she whispered. "I am so afraid." Trajan slowly pushed his glasses onto the top of his head and brought his lips softly to hers.
Amy Kuivalainen
#100. I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion ... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.
Patricia Richardson
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