Laura Wade Quotes

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.

Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

As a kid, all I thought about was death.

Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it.

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

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

But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

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

It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad 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 am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.

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.

I think about death. I don't want to die with clothes in the cleaners.

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

I like death. I'm a big fan of it.

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

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

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.