Dying Fear Quotes

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

You can't really live until you are no longer afraid to die.

He shimmered out, and I sat up in bed with that rather unpleasant feeling you get sometimes that you're going to die in about five minutes.

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.

I don't wake up saying, 'Oh, I'm going to die.' It's a waste of time. It really is.

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

I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect.

We are so afraid of the idea of having to die... that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn.

My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.

Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't know it. I fear dying, of dying I feel a sense of waste about it and I fear a sordid death, where I am incapacitated or imbecilic at the end which isn't something to be afraid of, it's something to be terrified of.

It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.

I think being dead isn't any problem. It's the process of dying which is quite off-putting.

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.

I get panic attacks about dying, it's terrible. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and my brain goes 'you're going to die, you're going to die, you're going to die.'

Better to flee from death than feel its grip.

Never fear dying, beloved. Dying is the last, but the least matter that a Christian has to be anxious about. Fear living...that is a hard battle to fight, a stern discipline to endure, a rough voyage to undergo.

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

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

One can't live without fear, it's a question of what is your attitude towards fear? I'm afraid of a sordid death. I'm afraid that I will die in an ugly or squalid way, and cancer can be very vigorous in that respect.

Ay, but to die, and go we know not where.

Basically, when I'm writing something, I think about what is the subject of the piece. The subject of the piece is our fear of getting old, which is a variation on our fear of dying.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Abide with me from morn to eve, / For without Thee I cannot live: / Abide with me when night is nigh. / For without Thee I dare not die.

I've always been terrified of dying, always. It was a concern of mine long before it had to be.