“We losers don't fear death. For us it's the end of a lifelong losing spell.”

“Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by no apparent rules.... We don't fear dreams, but we do fear madness, and death terrifies us.”

“But death does not stand at the end of life, it is all through it. It is the fear of losing, the knowledge of losing that makes love tender.”

“Death is the end of the fear of death. [...] To avoid it we must not stop fearing it and so life is fear. Death is time because time allows us to move toward death which we fear at all times when alive. We move around and that is fear. Movement through space requires time. Without death there is no movement through space and no life and no fear. To be aware of death is to be alive is to fear is to move around in space and time toward death.”

“I don't fear death--I fear dying before I've read Dickens end to end.”

“It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.”