Rosemary Mahoney Quotes

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

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.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

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

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

I'm not frightened of death.

I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death!

At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death.

To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed.

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

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

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

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

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

It is better to die once than to be always in fear of death.

I don't want to die.

The whole idea of death is something that we tend to kind of really not deal with at all.

I've always been most drawn to fiction that wrestles with that death-fear. Sometimes I joke with my students, 'If no one is in danger of dying, I'm not interested,' but of course I'm not really joking.

I'm not scared of death anymore.

I don't want to die, but I'm not afraid to.

Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying's as natural as living. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live.

To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.

I don't mean to imply that I'm afraid of Death. I'm just not ready to go out on a date with him.