J. K. Rowling Quotes

Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow confronts us with the prospect of our own deaths, draws our own deaths closer and makes them more real and thinkable.

Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

I would hate the thought of dying full stop; I've got to be honest with you.

I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.

As a kid, all I thought about was death.

Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.

I'm not frightened of death.

I don't believe dying's a sad thing.

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.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

When my parents died, it became clear to me that there was an end in sight. Death was never a real thing to me. And then when that happened I realized I only have so many years left, if I'm lucky.

In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

Death is something that happens to others, you think, until it happens to you.

I don't want to hear about my death.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

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

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that's not how it works.