David Jason Quotes

I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.

We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.

It would be an exaggeration to say I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not afraid of what comes after, because I'm not a believer.

We used to think earthly life was horrible and paradise awaited us when we died. Now we have made earthly life into a paradise and we fear death.

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

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

I guess I don't believe that death is the end.

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call 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.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

I've always been terrified of dying, always. It was a concern of mine long before it had to be.

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

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

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

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.

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

Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.

The quality of debate is pretty high—and it is, I think, good evidence of life after death.

I guess on one hand I believe it doesn't matter if there is life after death.

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

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.