Quotes About Not Afraid Of Dying

#1. 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

#2. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid I'll never get a chance to live!

A.A. Bell

#3. I'm not afraid of dying; I'm only afraid of living,

Ned Vizzini

#4. 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

#5. If people are not afraid of dying, why threaten them with death?

Laozi

#6. I don't believe in God, so I'm not afraid of dying.

B.F. Skinner

#7. I'm not afraid of dying. Pieces of me die all the time.

Sage Francis

#8. 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

#9. If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.

Ted Turner

#10. I'm not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.

Stanley Kubrick

#11. 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

#12. We are afraid that we have not lived.
We are not afraid of dying.

Allen Tate

#13. If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or is a Gurkha.

Sam Manekshaw

#14. I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of living.

Ned Vizzini

#15. 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

#16. I'm not afraid of dying, but I want to die a different way, any other way.

Veronica Roth

#17. 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

#18. I'm not afraid of dying I'm afraid of not trying

Jay-Z

#19. 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

#20. I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.

Derek Jarman

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. Are you afraid of dying, Ferris?'
'I'm afraid of not living.

Maria McCann

#28. 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

#29. I am not afraid to die; I am only afraid of saying goodbye to you forever.

Shannon L. Alder

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. Slowly I learn the importance of powerlessness. I experience it in my own life and I live with it in my work. The secret is not to be afraid of it - not to run away. The dying know that we are not God ... All they ask is that we do not desert them.

Sheila Cassidy

#35. If the idea of death during this period had, as we have seen, cast a gloom over love, the memory of love had for a long time now helped me not to be afraid of death. For I understood that dying was not something new but quite the reverse, that since my childhood I had already died a number of times.

Marcel Proust

#36. It's not dying you need to be afraid of, it's never having lived in the first place.

Seth Rogen

#37. I find the dead easier to be around than the dying. They are not in pain, not afraid of death. There are no awkward silences and conversations that dance around the obvious. They aren't scary...Cadavers, once you get used to them--and you do that quite fast--are surprisingly easy to be around.

Mary Roach

#38. It is not death I fear, not anymore. I've faced dying too many times to be afraid of it.

Victoria Aveyard

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore.

Katherine Anne Porter

#43. The Society wants us to be afraid of dying. But I'm not. I'm only afraid of dying wrong.

Ally Condie

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. I'm not afraid of death, just of dying.

Duane Hewitt

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. I have never been afraid of dying, I have only been afraid of not living fully.

Jeffrey Fry

#55. I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.

Ingvar Kamprad

#56. 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

#57. 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