Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

I've come to some balance now and calmness. If anything happened to me and I got hit by a bus - I hope this doesn't happen, but if something happened - my body of work is something I could rest on. I don't feel, "Oh God, I have to hurry up . . ."

If I died right now, my life would be complete.

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

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

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

If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . . Men sleep contentedly, assured that they will wake the following morning. They should feel the same about their lives.

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

I guess I worry about weird existential things, like how do we spend our final act. This is a very emotional question. I can't answer it without crying. I think, You're 56 years old, what did you do? You raised two good kids. What am I going to do now that is as meaningful as that? I don't know the answer yet.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

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'm not scared of death anymore.

I don't want to die, but I'm not afraid to.

I know mortality exists, but I cannot do anything about it. So it does not make me anxious.

If you live right, death is a joke to you as far as fear is concerned.

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

Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear this!

Tell them I've had a wonderful life.

I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep.

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

It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.

Fulfilled life is possible in spite of unfulfilled wishes.

I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?

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

I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

I know one day I'll be irrelevant. No matter how hard you try there is a cultural moment, but eventually that window's gone, your time on Earth is finished, and you might as well leave. I could absolutely die tomorrow - I would not care. I feel like I've lived, I feel like I've had a great life.