“I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore.”
Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980) American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist
Statement at age 80 in The New York Times (3 April 1970)
“I'm not afraid of death myself, because I'm not gonna know I'm dead. I'm awed a bit by the idea, but I'm perfectly reconciled to it. Certainly I am, as everyone is, reconciled to everyone else's death but their own. They think an exception can be made in their own case.”
As quoted in "Christmas with Christopher Hitchens", by Gregg LaGambina, The A.V. Club (20 December 2007) http://www.avclub.com/article/christmas-with-christopher-hitchens-14189 <br class="br">2000s, 2007
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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.
“I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.”
Edith Sitwell (1887–1964) British poet
Last words to her personal secretary (Elizabeth Salter) as she was being carried into an ambulance.
The Last Years of a Rebel (1967)
“I don't know how everyone else feels, but I'm exhausted.”
Cal Ripken, Jr. (1960) American baseball player
Quoted September 05, 1995, on playing in his 2,130th consecutive game equaling Lou Gehrig's record; The Baseball Timeline, Burt Solomon, p. 1018
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
During an interview on 60 Minutes (11 November 2016)
2010s, 2016, November
Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
Amanda Collier Ridley, Chapter 11, p. 171
2009, The Best of Me (2011)
Joy Behar (1942) US comedian, writer and actress
Longstanding Behar joke about how her Italian-Catholic persona is mistaken as being Jewish. As reported in The Boston Globe http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2008/04/20/in_the_swirl_of_the_view_a_stabilizing_force/?page=3 (April 20, 2008) page 3. Url accessed on December 12, 2008.