Margaret Atwood Quotes

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

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

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

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

I thought that we all were afraid of death, but I've talked to my wife and other people, and they're not afraid of death the way I am. I find that really confusing. I don't like the idea of nothingness - that's terrifying to me.

He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "Where is it? What death?" There was no fear because there was no death. In place of death there was light.

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.

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!

I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about.

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I have always been very wary of what would happen when I die. I feel I would die every day, and that thought sometimes made me more aware that I am alive.

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

Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don't look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don't worry about it because it's going to happen to me as it does to anybody.

I don't want to die. I can't wrap my head around the concept of death because I'm totally atheist. There's nothing after life in my head, whether that's right or wrong.

I don't want to die. Please don't let me die.

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