Isabel Allende Quotes

It’s been too hard living, but I’m afraid to die. ‘Cause I don’t know what’s up there, beyond the sky.

Change is very scary.

My world was changing, and I was not ready for it.

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

We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.

The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.

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.

He who fears death either fears the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation. But if thou shalt have no sensation, neither wilt thou feel any harm; and if thou shalt acquire another kind of sensation, thou wilt be a different kind of living being and thou wilt not cease to live.

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

He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life.

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

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!

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

I've always been terrified of dying, always. It was a concern of mine long before it had to be.

I don't know what's on the other side.

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

Just because you've faced your own mortality, it doesn't make it any less frightening.

Death is just life's next big adventure.

Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

I am scared of death.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

Whenever you start a new job, it's always a bit daunting, the unknown.

I started getting afraid of dying. I don't have any religion and I wanted to understand something about these greater powers without anthropomorphizing it.

Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying.