Milan Kundera Quotes

the fear of death is that you are dying too soon. Nobody wants to, but at the point that you die you can pray that you are no longer the same person. I pray that when I am about to die I will not be the same person that I am now.

I don't want to die. Please don't let me die.

All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen.

From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

I don't want to disappear.

It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death.

Everything is about to disappear. You've got to hurry up if you still want to see things.

We want to believe we couldn't be replaced, and that the people we love are irreplaceable.

Every fear is fear of death.

I probably just want to leave a trace of myself behind in this world.

I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.

We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.

Nobody wants to die feeling that they have not sung their song.

A whole world is taken to the grave with the dead person; each one of us is unique and unrepeatable.

In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.

When people ask me that, I say I don't want to be remembered. It means I'm no longer around.

Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?

Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?

It is different for us mortals. We are the ones who become old and grey. We are the ones who become worn at the seams and disappear. But not our dreams. They can live on in other people even after we have gone.

I'm so not ready to die. It petrifies me. I go alone. I go to a place I don't know. It might be painful. It might be the end. My thought is that it is the end. I become nameless, and I spent a lifetime being known.

Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you'll be.

It’s more that I’m afraid of time. And not having enough of it. Time to figure out who I’m supposed to be… to find my place in the world before I have to leave it. I’m afraid of what I’ll miss.

If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?

I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.