Talulah Riley Quotes

I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.

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

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die.

But I don't want to die! I have so much to do!

Man always dies before he is fully born.

I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.

Living a very long time would be a very scary thing.

My day-to-day local issues are rooted in an underlying fear of death.

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.

I'm happier because I had to face what all of us try not to face: that we're going to die. It's a fact.

You're immortal, aren't you, until you get a little peek over the precipice. The thought of death...You're not supposed to start pondering it until you're old. And there's nothing like being told you've got a life-threatening disease to concentrate your mind on that.

We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

Horror, almost better than any of the other genres, pits the will to live against the will toward nihilism. I just think that's worth exploring. I don't know what is more important, actually, to explore than that very dynamic.

That's probably the only thing I am afraid of: time.

It’s been too hard living, but I’m afraid to die. ‘Cause I don’t know what’s up there, beyond the sky.

I really do fear that I'm dying I really do fear that I'm dead I saw it in your eyes what I'm looking for I saw it in your eyes what will make me live.

The biggest fear of my life is living. My second biggest fear is dying.

And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

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

I think we live in slavery to fear. Most people don't have an answer to the death question and really don't even have a philosophy. That is a puzzle to me. I think even if I was not a Christian, I would want to at least have a personal solution to the death question. Otherwise, death is just a frightening thing.