“And death?
I don’t fear death.
I dread the absence of it.”

“We don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.”

“When I came back to Dublin, I was courtmartialled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.”

“How does he do it? Live. With the fear of death every day. I don't fear death as much as I fear the thought of living.”

“I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love”

“Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you'll be…”

“People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend”

““Rodney, whatever is the opposite of philosophy?”
“My dear, the opposite of philosophy is terror.”
“Terror? You mean fear of death?” I asked.
“I don’t think so…”
“Fear of what, then?”
“Of never having lived.””

“I think all human beings are and should be fearful [of death, but realizing that death is a real tragedy.”

“The only death I fear is dying ignorant.”