Richard Matheson Quotes

It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.

I've come to look upon death the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems to get through it all right, so it couldn't be too difficult for me.

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.

I've accomplished enough in life so that I do not fear death.

There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.

We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor should we tremble at the thought of death. We should be equiminded towards death. This is the ideal. It may be long before we reach it, and only a few of us can attain it. Even then, we must keep it constantly in view, and the more difficult it seems of attainment, the greater should be the effort we put forth.

Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.

Some children are afraid to die because their parents are afraid to die. My own children have come to understand that it's totally okay with me if they die. They don't have to live for my sake.

I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.

If I live the life I'm given, I won't be scared to die.

The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of life. Life in its becoming is always shedding death, and on the point of death. The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure - fearlessness and achievement.

Never fear Death for you will feel aroused by his sleep. Never cheat death or he will slap you with a sentence of misery for the defeat.

All fears are one fear. Just the fear of death. And we accept it, then we are at peace.

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness

One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

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

We're so terrified of death in Western culture that we have to make up a myth of an afterlife. I think there's something to be said for living your life very mindful of the fact that you're going to die because I think you carry yourself differently. It doesn't have to be this big, negative bummer.

He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

I am not afraid to die. I simply do not want to.

Don't live in fear of dying.

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