Richard Matheson Quotes

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

I’m ready to die. I hope it’s not too uncomfortable.

I fear dying. Anything with pain associated with it, I don't like.

Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die because they know not how to prevent dying.

It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.

nothing is so horrifying as the possibility of existing simply because we do not know how to die.

If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested in getting myself to believe that it's going to happen to me. I'm interested in it, because if you're not, you're nuts. It's really de facto what we're here to find out about.

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.

Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!

I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

It's a weird feeling when you know you're going to die.

I'm kind of a morbid person. I'm very optimistic, but I also feel like I'm going to die at any moment. I feel very much aware of my mortality. I'm here, and then I'm not.

Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don't look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don't worry about it because it's going to happen to me as it does to anybody.

There's no point thinking about dying, because it's going to happen anyway, isn't it? I don't waste my time worrying about that.

I wasn't gonna make it. I had come to terms that I was gonna die, and I was very sure of that.

I know mortality exists, but I cannot do anything about it. So it does not make me anxious.