Terry Pratchett Quotes

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!

The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow confronts us with the prospect of our own deaths, draws our own deaths closer and makes them more real and thinkable.

I think there is, in our society, there is a growing fear of death, a fear of the circumstances in which I might die, a fear I might be over-treated or under-treated. But fear is always a bad guide. Death is part of life.

I would like to avoid dying if possible. I do like living! The worst, I think for me, though, would be a really bedridden death.

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.

I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in the years or months before death.

I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.

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

I'm not 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.

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

I think being dead isn't any problem. It's the process of dying which is quite off-putting.

Before my cancer was diagnosed, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn't know when. After the diagnosis, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn't know when. But now I knew it acutely.

I'm scared of having a messy end, but not dying itself. It's inevitable.

I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.

If I learnt anything at all about terminal illness in my research, it's that the experience is different for everyone. I do believe that life becomes concentrated when it's boundaried and that death is the biggest boundary of all.

My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach.

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

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

I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.

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

In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

This has been harder for my friends. I know I'm going to die.

At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death.

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.