Timothy Spall Quotes

I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.

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

I've always been somebody who's acutely aware of my mortality.

Once in a while, when I'm alone, I think about my age. I think, How many more years do I have on this earth? But I can't really conceive of dying. Somehow, in my head, I don't think I'll die. I know that everybody dies, of course. I just think that it'll never come to me. It's crazy, but there it is.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal.

We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.

Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.

I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

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

If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.

I'm happier because I had to face what all of us try not to face: that we're going to die. It's a fact.

I'm kind of a morbid person. I'm very optimistic, but I also feel like I'm going to die at any moment. I feel very much aware of my mortality. I'm here, and then I'm not.

I lived for nearly seven years with the awareness that death was my everyday companion.

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

Once in a while, when I'm alone, I think about my age. I think, 'How many more years do I have on this earth?' But I can't really conceive of dying.

At the age of 31, I realized, 'Oh my God, I may die like everyone else.'

I don't think having a fear of death is unreasonable.

It doesn't take that many years for a kid to realise that they're going to die. It's always there in the back of their mind the rest of their lives.

We are all terminal.

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.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

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.

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

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!