J. K. Rowling Quotes

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

Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than when his only brother was killed in the flour mill or when his children died, stronger even than when he was a child and it first occurred to him that he must try to understand what it could mean not to be alive -- to be not in darkness, not in unfeeling -- to be not being, not to be.

It is notorious that the desire to live increases as life itself shortens.

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

I know that whenever I think about death, I come up against a stone wall.

I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in the years or months before death.

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

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

Even the stout of heart shrink when they see the approach of death.

I really do fear that I'm dying I really do fear that I'm dead I saw it in your eyes what I'm looking for I saw it in your eyes what will make me live.

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.

What is it about death that bothers me? Probably the hours.

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

YOU FEAR TO DIE? "It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break.

My existence from day to day has become a matter of averting my eyes, of cringing. Death is the only truth left. Death is what I cannot bear to think. At every moment when I am thinking of something else, I am not thinking death, am not thinking the truth.

nothing is so horrifying as the possibility of existing simply because we do not know how to die.

Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?" "I guess it depends on how you die.

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

Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it.

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

In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

In modern times, if you're on an airplane and it's going down, that's it. You've got a couple of minutes, if that, to work out where you stand in relationship to the whole of your life.

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

Just because you've faced your own mortality, it doesn't make it any less frightening.

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