“I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!”

“I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.”

“Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.”

“There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.”

“To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.”

“Man's death by sins is more than his death by fate and his life by charity is more than his life by age.”

“Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not affraid of dying and going to hell or (what would be considered worse) going to a popularized version of heaven. I expect death to be nothingness and for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.”

“The only attraction is the time. I work just 70 days a year on the show. I can still make two, three movies a year if I want to… If it were Bonanza, walking around the Ponderosa, tied up nearly all year, no-o-o chance. That's a fate worse than death.”

“One thing I have learnt about Death is that his bark is worse than his bite.”

“To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.”