Carl Jung Quotes

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.

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

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.

I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.

In your teens and twenties, death doesn't exist. In your thirties, you glance down the road occasionally. But then in your forties, it becomes a full-time job looking the other way.

I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.

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

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

Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about how to die - distinguishes us from other animals. The need to manage death is the particular lot of humanity.

We're so terrified of death in Western culture that we have to make up a myth of an afterlife. I think there's something to be said for living your life very mindful of the fact that you're going to die because I think you carry yourself differently. It doesn't have to be this big, negative bummer.

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that's not how it works.

There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older might be overcome.

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

We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.

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.

There's worse things in life than death.

There's no point thinking about dying, because it's going to happen anyway, isn't it? I don't waste my time worrying about that.

If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested in getting myself to believe that it's going to happen to me. I'm interested in it, because if you're not, you're nuts. It's really de facto what we're here to find out about.

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!

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.

The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow confronts us with the prospect of our own deaths, draws our own deaths closer and makes them more real and thinkable.

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.