Rufus Wainwright Quotes

We're afraid to live, because we're afraid of dying.

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

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

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

I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put if off as long as we can. But it makes very little difference. So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

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

YOU FEAR TO DIE? "It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break.

He that fears death loses the joys of life.

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

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.

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

I don't think I've ever been particularly scared of death - but scared of dying, the process. It doesn't seem to be a good way of doing it.

My liveliness is based on an incredible fear of death. In order to keep death at bay, I do a lot of "Yah! Yah! Yah!" And death says, "All right. He's too noisy and busy. I'll wait for someone who's sitting quietly, half asleep."

I'm afraid of death, obviously.

Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than when his only brother was killed in the flour mill or when his children died, stronger even than when he was a child and it first occurred to him that he must try to understand what it could mean not to be alive -- to be not in darkness, not in unfeeling -- to be not being, not to be.

I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of living.

Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the thing itself: his will to live had always been so much stronger than his fear of death.

People continue to fear dying, only because no one ever has.

nothing is so horrifying as the possibility of existing simply because we do not know how to die.

Nobody, not even the old, not even the despairing, wished to come to an end in time or in eternity.

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

Just because you've faced your own mortality, it doesn't make it any less frightening.

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

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.

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