David Fincher Quotes

Whereas in America we are so fearful of mortality, we don't want to talk about it, we don't think about it, and in many ways we treat elderly people as invisible because they are a constant reminder of our own mortality. We put them away and put them in retirement homes so we don't want to deal with that.

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

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

No doubt many people have the feeling that to talk about death at all is, in effect, to conjure it up mentally, to bring it closer in such a way that one has to face up to the inevitability of one's own eventual demise. So, to spare ourselves this psychological trauma, we decide just to try to avoid the topic as much as possible.

I am a serial denier. I try not to be. I tell myself, 'You are going to die.' I repeat it. I grasp it for a second or two, but then it escapes me, and I'm back to before.

Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.

Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.

Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the thing itself: his will to live had always been so much stronger than his fear of death.

We each cope differently with the specter of our deaths. Some people deny it. Some pray. Some numb themselves with tequila. I was tempted to do a little of each of those things. But I think we are supposed to try to face it straightforwardly, armed with nothing but courage.

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.

We are so afraid of the idea of having to die... that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn.

I feel like Dr. Death.

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

Death is something that I am still trying to figure out a healthy relationship with.

There's no point thinking about dying, because it's going to happen anyway, isn't it? I don't waste my time worrying about that.

Death is just around the corner. If only it would stay there.

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.

I don't mind dying... as long as I don't have to be there when it happens.

He that feares death lives not.

Life is a hurdle and you'll never clear it. Death is the end of the ride and you fear it.

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.

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.