“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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Cormac McCarthy270
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter 1933Related quotes
“I die hard but am not afraid to go.”
George Washington (1732–1799) first President of the United States
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”
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
““Are you that afraid to die?”
“No. I simply like to live.””
Poul Anderson book Tau Zero
Source: Tau Zero (1970), Chapter 7 (p. 78)
“I'm not afraid to die; I just don't want to be there when it happens”
Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist
“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". <br class="br">Without Feathers (1975)
Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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.”
Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle