“I'm afraid to live and afraid to die.”
Source: Go Ask Alice
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story
“I'm afraid to live and afraid to die.”
Source: Go Ask Alice
“To live in a saint's heart? I'm afraid of setting the sky ablaze.”
Tears and Saints (1937)
“I'm afraid that if my dream is realized, I'll have no reason to go on living.”
Source: The Alchemist
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
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.
“Only those are fit to live who are not afraid of dying.”
Richards Topical Encyclopedia (1951)
“I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.”
Jennifer Lopez shades A-list actress peers in resurfaced interview https://nypost.com/2019/09/25/jennifer-lopez-shades-a-list-actress-peers-in-resurfaced-interview/, by Nadine DeNinno, New York Post, September 25, 2019.