Jack Kerouac Quotes

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

We keep making the same mistakes as a species, and you can usually draw it back to the fact that we are all terrified of dying. We also all think that we are going to escape it until we get to 65!

The Fear of Death often proves Mortal.

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.

Basically, when I'm writing something, I think about what is the subject of the piece. The subject of the piece is our fear of getting old, which is a variation on our fear of dying.

As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'

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

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.

There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older might be overcome.

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.

I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.

I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.

Death is just around the corner. If only it would stay there.

He who fears death dies every time he thinks of it.

Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.

To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.

I think my biggest fear is dying. Although sometimes my biggest fear is not dying. But yeah, I think health stuff for me is more what I'm afraid of.

Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death.

Timor mortis conturbat me. The fear of death disturbs me.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.

Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.