Patrick Ness Quotes

I don't want to hear about my death.

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

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

I was afraid I was goin to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.

I began to think my time had come, as the saying is.

While there's life, there's fear.

I'm terrified I'm about to die, or that all the people I love are about to die, every second of every day.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves.

Dolls, perhaps more than any other object, demonstrate just how thin the line between love and fear, comfort and horror, can be. They are objects of love and sources of reassurance for children, coveted prizes for collectors, sources of terror and horror in numerous movies, television shows, books, and stories.

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.

I don't want to die.

I am scared of death.

I have really bad anxiety and OCD. I get afraid of everyone I know dying.

Relax - This won't hurt.

Dying--shucks! If you kin handle the living, what's to be afraid of the dying?

But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.

In the end, living is defined by dying. Book-ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to bursting by the approaching end. Fear is ever-present, waiting to be called to the surface. Change brought fear, and fear brought destruction.

True. The one certainty about riding, Braygan, is that - at some time - you will fall off. It is a fact. Another fact you might like to consider, in your life of perpetual terror, is that you will die. We are all going to die, some of us young, some of us old, some of us in our sleep, some of us screaming in agony. We cannot stop it, we can only delay it.

We're just afraid, period. Our fear is free-floating. We're afraid this isn't the right relationship or we're afraid it is. We're afraid they won't like us or we're afraid they will. We're afraid of failure or we're afraid of success. We're afraid of dying young or we're afraid of growing old. We're more afraid of life than we are of death.

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

Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died.

And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

But we are not interested in death at all: rather, we escape the facts, we are continuously escaping the facts. Death is there, and every moment we are dying. Death is not something far away, it is here and now: we are dying. But while we are dying we go on being concerned about life. This concern with life, this over concern with life, is just an escape, just a fear. Death is there, deep inside - growing.