Marc Bolan Quotes

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

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

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

Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.

The fear of death is far greater than the death itself. But the fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all!

Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?

We're afraid to live, because we're afraid of dying.

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!

I got this feeling I'm gonna die before I get old. I don't know why. I just have this feeling.

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

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

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

the fear of death is that you are dying too soon. Nobody wants to, but at the point that you die you can pray that you are no longer the same person. I pray that when I am about to die I will not be the same person that I am now.

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

I think our children are afraid to die because we're afraid to die.

I don't think I've ever been particularly scared of death - but scared of dying, the process. It doesn't seem to be a good way of doing it.

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.

The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.

Every fear is fear of death.

All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.

Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you'll be.

Death is not the enemy; living in constant fear of it is.

People continue to fear dying, only because no one ever has.