“I went to work every day prepared to die in a tiger cage. Dying doesn't scare me. At all.”— Joe Exotic , imdb.com
“Every time I receive a death notification—they come at randomized times (just like death!) between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m.—I’m invited to open it for a quote about human impermanence, or the beauty of mortality, or something else appropriately death-adjacent.”— Haley Nahman, manrepeller.com
“I ain’t afraid to die anymore. I’ve done it already.”— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Mark L. Smith, Hugh Glass, Leonardo Dicaprio, imdb.com
“I was always afraid of my mum or dad dying when I was a child. I used to play this game where if I ran on the road and stepped on a cracked paving slab, it meant that something bad was going to happen to them.”— Ozzy Osbourne, theguardian.com
“We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.”— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com
“If you believe you’ve lived your life the right way, then you do not have nothing to fear.”— John Wayne Gacy, chicago.cbslocal.com
“The average person has the most fear of death and in reality thinks most rarely about it. The most prominent one occupies himself with it most persistently, but nevertheless fears it the least. The one lives blindly day to day, sinning away, only to sink down before the grim reaper. The other carefu…”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't.”— Rick Yancey, amazon.com
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”— Edward Abbey, amazon.com
“Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That's what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease.”— John Green, Augustus Waters, amazon.com
“What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me.”— John Green, Augustus Waters, amazon.com
“I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like the sound of Dutch people speaking Dutch. And now...I don't even get a battle. I don't get a fight.”— John Green, Augustus Waters, amazon.com
“I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls. The oblivion fear is something else, fear that I won't be able to give anything in exchange for my life.”— John Green, Augustus Waters, amazon.com