Joan D. Vinge Quotes

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

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about.

I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

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

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

If we can prove an afterlife, then we have less pressure to make our physical life last forever.

There was a time in my demented youth When somehow I suspected that the truth About survival after death was known To every human being: I alone Knew nothing, and a great conspiracy Of books and people hid the truth from me.

Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.

Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

I'm not afraid of death at all.

To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed.

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Everybody is going to die, so people are enthralled by the possibility that they don't have to completely die, that there is something that comes afterward. It's like if you're going to France for the summer, you're going to read up on it. Everyone just wants to know where they're going, or if they're going anywhere.

I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet.

I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.