John Mortimer Quotes

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

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

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.

Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.

I've always been terrified of dying, always. It was a concern of mine long before it had to be.

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

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

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

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

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.

I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.

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.

Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.

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!

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

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

I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

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.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

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.

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.