Thomas Nagel Quotes

Even the stout of heart shrink when they see the approach of death.

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in the years or months before death.

Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it.

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

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

I've got to say that is - the highest emotion of the human experience is going down in a plane knowing your going to die!

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

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

I would like to avoid dying if possible. I do like living! The worst, I think for me, though, would be a really bedridden death.

It's a weird feeling when you know you're going to die.

I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.

I'm scared of having a messy end, but not dying itself. It's inevitable.

Death is just around the corner. If only it would stay there.

I don't mind dying... as long as I don't have to be there when it happens.

I rather like the idea of defying death.

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.

Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.

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.

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

I would like to grow less afraid of dying. I am infinitely less afraid today than I was 15 or 25 years ago. I was most afraid of dying when I was 33, because I come from a Catholic family.

When a significant other - a spouse, a parent or someone you're close to - is dying, it forces you to think about your life, about what you feel about death. What I realized from my dad's dying was that I wasn't scared of dying. But I was terrified of regrets. I was terrified of getting to the end of my life with a lot of Why didn't I's.

Basically, when I'm writing something, I think about what is the subject of the piece. The subject of the piece is our fear of getting old, which is a variation on our fear of dying.

I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I shall not be able to keep myself from regretting bitterly the life that has brought me to such a pass; but I disown that regret. I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.