Dorothy Gilman Quotes

To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.

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.

How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not like a man who, having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back?

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

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

My day-to-day local issues are rooted in an underlying fear of death.

I don't want to die.

Horror, almost better than any of the other genres, pits the will to live against the will toward nihilism. I just think that's worth exploring. I don't know what is more important, actually, to explore than that very dynamic.

You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death.

If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.

Man," he said, "I'm not afraid of graveyards. The dead are just, you know, people who wanted the same things you and I want." "What do we want?" I asked blurrily. "Aw, man, you know," he said. "We just want, well, the same things these people wanted." "What was that?" He shrugged. "To live, I guess," he said.

The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.

There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.

I don't want to die. Damn death. Long live life.

Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.

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

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 think we live in slavery to fear. Most people don't have an answer to the death question and really don't even have a philosophy. That is a puzzle to me. I think even if I was not a Christian, I would want to at least have a personal solution to the death question. Otherwise, death is just a frightening thing.

Worrying about dying will hardly help you live.

Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

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