Jane Wiedlin Quotes

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 never thought I was gonna live to 30.

Age is provident because the less future we have the more we fear it.

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

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!

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.

In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.

I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later.

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

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.

I'd see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn't understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long left. It would be like dominoes and then the last one fell and I'm a little heap on the floor. Doctors put me on anti-depressants for a couple of years.

As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.

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

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

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

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

I thought, 'If I make 35, it'll be okay,' and then at 40, I got scared, and now that I'm 81, I'm scared to death.

My brother and I both used to worry about dying at 40 because our father died at 40. That probably wasn't terribly rational, since my father led a rather unhealthy lifestyle, shall we say.

Once you've stared death in the face, every day is a good day.

Watching someone that you love, you think they have a certain amount of time left to live, changed everything for me. And tennis seemed not so important anymore.

My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.

I will be happy if I am 60 because I was not supposed to be 60.

I think that it's rational to fear your own death or to fear harm to your family.

I worry about dying all the time so I worry about my health. I don't want to die because I absolutely love my life.