W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

I'm not worried about what's going to happen when I'm thirty, because I am never going to make it to thirty. You know what life is like after thirty - I don't want that.

Woke up this morning afraid I was gonna live.

I think it's just fear of death. I can't bear to go to sleep. There's very little, you know, between an entrepreneur and a crazy person.

A lot of people want to die for a lot of reasons.

I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.

If you're a gunfighter, you like to die in the street.

If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

If you look at the horror genre, that work is all about making people uncomfortable by stimulating our fear of death.

I really do fear that I'm dying I really do fear that I'm dead I saw it in your eyes what I'm looking for I saw it in your eyes what will make me live.

Wherever you are afraid, try to explore, and you will find death hiding somewhere behind. All fear is of death. Death is the only fear source.

Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.

What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.

It's just a relief, really. I'm scared to die, but I want to die.

L'ide e qu'on mourra est plus cruelle que mourir, mais moins que l'ide e qu'un autre est mort. The idea of dying is worse than dying itself, but less cruel than the idea that another has died.

Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.

There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.

He doesn't mind if he dies... indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.

For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.

Life, too much of it, and not enough. The fear that it will end some day, and the fear that tomorrow will be the same as yesterday.

hate blows a bubble of despair into hugeness world system universe and bang -fear buries a tomorrow under woe and up comes yesterday most green and young

I want you to feel like you're going to die.

We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.

I have often thought that when I do die it will be of sheer boredom.

I would say probably not being able to do what I want to do and not being completely fulfilled and happy. I don't know how that would manifest itself in a mirror. It's just that feeling of not being satisfied with my life would be the worst thing that could ever happen to me.