William Shatner Quotes

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.

What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb. "Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, for one thing, what happens next? Where do we go? Is it what we imagined?" That's big. "Yes. But there's something else." What else? He leaned forward. "Being forgotten," he whispered.

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought, particularly for those who bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held. On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily laying down.

What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.

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!

It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

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

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.

Afraid? Of whom am I afraid? Not death. For who is he?

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

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.

Do the dead frighten you?

I'm afraid of death, obviously.

He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.

It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is a part of being alive, something we all share. We react against the possibility of loneliness, of death, of not having anything to hold on to. Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.