“I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of living.”
Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story
“I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of living.”
Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story
“You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist.”
Neale Donald Walsch (1943) American writer
Source: Home with God: In a Life That Never Ends
Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author
As quoted in "Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story'" by Ian Sample, in The Guardian (15 May 2011) http://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/may/15/stephen-hawking-interview-there-is-no-heaven <br class="br">Context: I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first... I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
“All living things are afraid to die.”
David Zindell book Neverness
"No, you're exactly wrong, the only truly alive beings are those unafraid to die."
Neverness (1988)
“If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.”
Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist
““Are you that afraid to die?”
“No. I simply like to live.””
Poul Anderson book Tau Zero
Source: Tau Zero (1970), Chapter 7 (p. 78)
“I'm not afraid to die; I just don't want to be there when it happens”
Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist
“It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
" Death (A Play) http://books.google.com/books?id=qjRaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22It's+not+that+I'm+afraid+to+die+I+just+don't+want+to+be+there+when+it+happens%22&pg=PA99#v=onepage". <br class="br">Without Feathers (1975)