“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 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)
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.
“Do you have any coffee?'…'It stunts my growth, and I'm afraid of death.”
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?"
"I guess it depends on how you die.”
Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Most people are more afraid of the unknown than death.”
Jay Samit (1961) American businessman
Future Proofing You (2021)
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist
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
“I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.”
Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon
Source: Flowers for Algernon (1966)