Domhnall Gleeson Quotes

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be.

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

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

I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.

I found that the things I am afraid of most are things for which there are no obvious remedies. Like, what do you do with a fear of death? You either come to terms with it or you don't, but there's no solving it.

With 'Hereditary', I wanted to make a film about what bothers me about life.

Death at times seems like a dark tunnel to be traveled, and the future seems bleak.

I'm not cynical, but the reality is that life is mortal. Terrible, sad things happen. Everybody loses friends and family. I'll be on tour and get really scared if my wife won't answer her phone within one minute. I'm sensitive.

Anxiety is simply living out the future before it gets here.

Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.

Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear As the thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts, That work no harm, do terrify us more Than men in steel with bloody purposes. Death is not dreadful; 'tis the dread of death— We die whene'er we think of it!

I could worry about pretty much anything you put in front of me, so I'm not actually sort of anti-technology. So it doesn't sort of come out of that. It's not like a fear of the future. It's a fear of everything.

I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know how I’m going to live.

Oh, god,” I said. “Sorry, sorry. Do I die now?” --Sadie to Zia

Are you ever afraid to go to sleep? Afraid of what comes next?” He smiles a sad little smile and I swear it’s like he knows. “Sometimes I’m afraid of what I’m leaving behind,” he says.

Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-.

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

There's nothing as scary as the future.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Death is when the monsters get you.