Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Beatrice Sparks 16
American writer 1917–2012Related quotes
“You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist.”
Source: Home with God: In a Life That Never Ends
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.
“All living things are afraid to die.”
"No, you're exactly wrong, the only truly alive beings are those unafraid to die."
Neverness (1988)
“If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.”
Source: A Soldier of the Great War
““Are you that afraid to die?”
“No. I simply like to live.””
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”
“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)