Dan Trachtenberg Quotes

Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.

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 death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death!

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

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.

I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.

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

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

I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die.

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

We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.

I'm not frightened of death.

I'm not scared of death anymore.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.

Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.

He that fears death loses the joys of life.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

I'm not afraid of death at all.

To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed.

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.