fear of the afterlife Quotes

I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring.

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.

Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death - this infantile fixation of mine - was, at that moment, overwhelming. I felt myself in contact with death day and night, and my fear was tremendous. When I finished the picture, my fear went away. I have the feeling simply of having painted a canvas in an enormous hurry - with enormous pretension but without any arrogance. I said, 'Here is a painting; take it, please.'

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

I myself am not afraid of ghosts; I am afraid of people.

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.

The biggest fear of my life is living. My second biggest fear is dying.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

I'm so not ready to die. It petrifies me. I go alone. I go to a place I don't know. It might be painful. It might be the end. My thought is that it is the end. I become nameless, and I spent a lifetime being known.

He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.

My liveliness is based on an incredible fear of death. In order to keep death at bay, I do a lot of "Yah! Yah! Yah!" And death says, "All right. He's too noisy and busy. I'll wait for someone who's sitting quietly, half asleep."

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

For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one knows whether death, which they in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Never in my life have I feared death as much as I feared that resurrection.

Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.

For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

Afraid? Of whom am I afraid? Not death. For who is he?

I've always been much more scared of the living than I am of the dead.

Do the dead frighten you?