Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes

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

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

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

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!

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.

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

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

Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.

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.

It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.

I would hate the thought of dying full stop; I've got to be honest with you.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

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

It is better to die once than to be always in fear of death.

The whole idea of death is something that we tend to kind of really not deal with at all.

I've always been most drawn to fiction that wrestles with that death-fear. Sometimes I joke with my students, 'If no one is in danger of dying, I'm not interested,' but of course I'm not really joking.

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.

To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.

Every fear is fear of death.

But death doesn't scare me. To know exactly when I might expect it, up close and in my face, would actually be a comfort. Because to tell the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape.

Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?

I felt myself getting whiter... What does it mean to become white? How does it feel to see Death in the flesh, come to gather you in?

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.