“I was afraid I was going to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.”
Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
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American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter 1933Related quotes
“I die hard but am not afraid to go.”
I believed from my first attack that I should not survive it — my breath cannot last long.
The first sentence here is sometimes presented as being his last statement before dying, but they are reported as part of the fuller statement, and as being said in the afternoon prior to his death in Life of Washington (1859) by Washington Irving, and his actual last words are stated to have been those reported by Tobias Lear below.
1790s
“I am not the least afraid to die”
““Are you that afraid to die?”
“No. I simply like to live.””
Source: Tau Zero (1970), Chapter 7 (p. 78)
Source: A Soldier of the Great War
“I'm not afraid to die; I just don't want to be there when it happens”
“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".
Without Feathers (1975)
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?"
"I guess it depends on how you die.”
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle