Viggo Mortensen Quotes

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

Once in a while, when I'm alone, I think about my age. I think, How many more years do I have on this earth? But I can't really conceive of dying. Somehow, in my head, I don't think I'll die. I know that everybody dies, of course. I just think that it'll never come to me. It's crazy, but there it is.

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'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.

As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'

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.

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!

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

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

I don't think having a fear of death is unreasonable.

Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don't look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don't worry about it because it's going to happen to me as it does to anybody.

I mean, we're all going to die. We know that on an intellectual level. We figure it out when we're still fairly young, and it scares us so badly that we convince ourselves we're immortal for more than a decade afterwards.

Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.

Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer it.

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

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

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

He that fears death loses the joys of life.

Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!

I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed.