A. N. Wilson Quotes

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!

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.

I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.

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

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

I don't want to die.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by 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.

I thought that we all were afraid of death, but I've talked to my wife and other people, and they're not afraid of death the way I am. I find that really confusing. I don't like the idea of nothingness - that's terrifying to me.

He that fears death loses the joys of life.

I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear.

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

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

I don't want to hear about my death.

Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

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.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

I think there is, in our society, there is a growing fear of death, a fear of the circumstances in which I might die, a fear I might be over-treated or under-treated. But fear is always a bad guide. Death is part of life.

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

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

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