Rod Serling Quotes

You're immortal, aren't you, until you get a little peek over the precipice. The thought of death...You're not supposed to start pondering it until you're old. And there's nothing like being told you've got a life-threatening disease to concentrate your mind on that.

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?

You realize mortality is everywhere.

The conceit of an anchorman is we never think we're going to die, I suppose.

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

We keep making the same mistakes as a species, and you can usually draw it back to the fact that we are all terrified of dying. We also all think that we are going to escape it until we get to 65!

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.

It's a weird feeling when you know you're going to die.

Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death.

Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death.

Everybody dies; that's a fact. Sometimes it blindsides people. Sometimes people get a glimpse of the big picture and decide to cheat.

Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.

It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.

nothing is so horrifying as the possibility of existing simply because we do not know how to die.

Once in a while, when I'm alone, I think about my age. I think, How many more years do I have on this earth? But I can't really conceive of dying. Somehow, in my head, I don't think I'll die. I know that everybody dies, of course. I just think that it'll never come to me. It's crazy, but there it is.

For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

A small fact: You are going to die....does this worry you?

And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to die one day. And before that his friends wil die, and the friends of his friends, and, as time passes, the children of his friends, and, if his fate is truly bitter, his own children. (58)

After a few decades, everyone you know will be dead. Problem solved.

I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.

Be glad you're even alive.' Be furious you're going to die.

I don't mean to imply that I'm afraid of Death. I'm just not ready to go out on a date with him.

I am afraid of death. I believe nothing, and therefore like many who believe nothing I must make something, and that something is the meaning which I give my life.

Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible!