““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)
“It’s a terrible thing, being afraid. It’s like an illness; like wanting to fall down, and not being able to faint. You see you never get used to it. You live with it and live with it and every day it’s worse; and one day it’s the worst of all. I thought, when it…happened, I wouldn’t be afraid. But I was wrong….”
— Keith Roberts, book Pavane
Sixth measure “Corfe Gate” (p. 260)
Pavane (1968)
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Variant: You see, I tired of constant fear, so I made a decision. Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.
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