Amy Sherald Quotes

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

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

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!

In your teens and twenties, death doesn't exist. In your thirties, you glance down the road occasionally. But then in your forties, it becomes a full-time job looking the other way.

We keep making the same mistakes as a species, and you can usually draw it back to the fact that we are all terrified of dying. We also all think that we are going to escape it until we get to 65!

I don't like being 50 and I don't like thinking about death.

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

I'm kind of a morbid person. I'm very optimistic, but I also feel like I'm going to die at any moment. I feel very much aware of my mortality. I'm here, and then I'm not.

I fear dying. Anything with pain associated with it, I don't like.

I think that it's rational to fear your own death or to fear harm to your family.

For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.

He shimmered out, and I sat up in bed with that rather unpleasant feeling you get sometimes that you're going to die in about five minutes.

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

If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested in getting myself to believe that it's going to happen to me. I'm interested in it, because if you're not, you're nuts. It's really de facto what we're here to find out about.

It doesn't take that many years for a kid to realise that they're going to die. It's always there in the back of their mind the rest of their lives.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

We're the only species that can look into the future and know that we're going to die one day, and it causes all sorts of cognitive stress on your system.

Death doesn't frighten me, it bothers me. It bothers me for example that someone can be there tomorrow but me I am no longer there. What bothers me is no longer being alive, not being dead.

I got this feeling I'm gonna die before I get old. I don't know why. I just have this feeling.

I find looking forward scary because you might die.

In modern times, if you're on an airplane and it's going down, that's it. You've got a couple of minutes, if that, to work out where you stand in relationship to the whole of your life.

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

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.

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

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.