139 Quotes About Fear-of-death

The greatest fear in life is not of death, but unsolicited change.

I don’t need immortality. The fear of death keeps a girl sharp.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils.

I just gave up one day. Around the time the news about toxic shock came out. I thought, Fuck me, man, I give up. Come and get me.

Therefore, even if you were to die today, it wouldn’t matter what happens after that because you wouldn’t be experiencing it.

Yet death unites us in the same way that birth does. It's something that we all have in common. It's a part of us. It's a doorway, and just because we don't understand what's in the next room, it doesn't mean that there isn't a next room, or that the next room is something to be scared of. It just means that we haven't been into it before. Or maybe we have, and we just can't remember.

The fear of death came over him gradually. It was as if somebody were striking his heart a powerful blow with the fist from below.

Eventually, 'Dad is dead' turned into 'I will die', which was my introduction to the fear. The fear of gone. The fear of nothing at all, of what happens to me, of I am the main character and the story will crumble if I'm not there to see it through.

He did not fear death exactly, but he had evaded it for so many years that it had come to seem formidable simply by virtue of that long act of evasion. In particular he feared dying in some undignified way, on the jakes or with his face in the porridge.