Jean Baudrillard Quotes

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

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.

Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about how to die - distinguishes us from other animals. The need to manage death is the particular lot of humanity.

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 think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.

Why do we cling to life and why are we afraid of death? You may not have thought about it. The reason why we cling so much to life and why we are afraid of death is just inconceivable. We cling to life so much because we do not know how to live. We cling to life so much because really we are not alive. And time is passing and death is coming nearer and nearer. And we are afraid that death is coming near and we have not lived yet.

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

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

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

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

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

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.

For me, no matter what movie I make, no matter what the genre or the budget, they all have the same theme at their core: fear of death and happiness about living.

I found that the things I am afraid of most are things for which there are no obvious remedies. Like, what do you do with a fear of death? You either come to terms with it or you don't, but there's no solving it.

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.

Every fear is fear of death.

Some people are paralyzed by the consciousness of death, other people live with it.... The fatwa certainly made me think about it a lot more than I ever had. I guess I know I'm going to die, but then, so are you.

All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.

Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.

It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed, or worse, being some natural force propelling life on. Is it selfish? Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.

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