Ugo Betti Quotes

I don't want to die. Damn death. Long live life.

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

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

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

I don't want to die.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.

I don't want to live forever through my work. I want to live forever by not dying.

Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

I don't want to hear about my death.

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Who wants to live forever?

Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.

The only thing that scares me is dying.

I do not fear death, as I cherish life too much.

Love is the one thing everyone is looking for, and death is the one thing everyone's running from.

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

I shall not altogether die.

Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.

That which we die for lives as wholly as that which we live for dies.

Immortality—dazzling idea! who first imagined thee! Was it some jolly burgher of Nuremburg, who with night-cap on his head, and white clay pipe in mouth, sat on some pleasant summer evening before his door, and reflected in all his comfort, that it would be right pleasant, if, with unextinguishable pipe, and endless breath, he could thus vegetate onwards for a blessed eternity? Or was it a lover, who in the arms of his loved one, thought the immortality-thought, and that because he could think and feel naught beside!—Love! Immortality!

I would not choose to go where I would be afraid to die, nor could I bear to live without a good hope for hereafter.

Your greatest fear is death and your deepest craving is survival. You want Forever, you desire Eternity. In your deluded belief that you are this 'mind' or 'spirit' or 'soul', you find the escape clause in your contract with mortality. Perhaps as 'mind' you can wing free of the body when it dies, hmm?