"Sure, Ra's, why not? Anything to hold off The Grim Reaper another few seconds. I take it back. You don't cheat death; you whimper in fear of it!"
— Bruce Wayne, Batman Beyond, "Out of the Past"
"It's too late for me. I'm sorry for what I did before. I knew what was ahead. I guess... I guess I was afraid. When you've lived as long as I have, you... you kind of get used to it."
— Kosh (appearing as Sheridan's father), Babylon 5, "Interludes and Examinations"
"I don't understand how this all happens. How we go through this. I mean, I knew her, and then she's — There's just a body! And I don't understand why she just can't get back in it and not be dead anymore! It's stupid! It's mortal and stupid! And — and Xander's crying and not talking, and — and I was having fruit punch, and I thought, 'Well, Joyce will never have any more fruit punch ever, and she'll never have eggs, or yawn or brush her hair, not ever,' and no one will explain to me why."
— Anya Jenkins, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "The Body"
"You, as a human, fear death. But you are — what — fifty? If you were to die today, what would you lose? Twenty years of life, perhaps thirty at the most, and the last decade or more racked with pain and tortured with the humiliation of failing faculties. Bah! Nothing.
I, as a vampire, fear nonexistence. I have lived ten years for every one of yours. And if I were to be destroyed today, what would I lose? Eternity!"
I, as a vampire, fear nonexistence. I have lived ten years for every one of yours. And if I were to be destroyed today, what would I lose? Eternity!"
— Vampire, Van Richten's Guide to Vampires, Ravenloft
"Like a child, he is blind to the contradiction of his desires; he wishes to destroy all things to experience the peace of nonbeing, yet is terrified of death."
King Andrias: When our civilization was at its peak, the moon became home to some of the Core's pet projects. Among them, a plan to eradicate all life as we know it. By ramming the moon into Amphibia's surface.
Anne: Excuse me!? Why!?
Marcy: Fear. I've been in that thing's head. I know that more than anything. It's afraid of being destroyed. Of being irrelevant. It will do whatever it takes to defeat us and claim the stones as its own. If that means destroying an entire civilization, then so be it.
Anne: Excuse me!? Why!?
Marcy: Fear. I've been in that thing's head. I know that more than anything. It's afraid of being destroyed. Of being irrelevant. It will do whatever it takes to defeat us and claim the stones as its own. If that means destroying an entire civilization, then so be it.
"We don't get to choose our time. Death is what gives life meaning. To know your days are numbered, your time is short. You'd think after all this time, I'd be ready. But look at me, stretching out one moment into a thousand, just so I can watch the snow."
— The Ancient One, Doctor Strange
"When it comes to so-called 'immortals', do not fear them. Those that call themselves by such a title have purged themselves of the most useful and primal their brain, the parts that remember the cold fear, the old night, the teeth in the dark. The swordsman should be a great friend to fear and pain, so when they inevitably find him, he will not collapse at their remembrance, like a pathetic mewling thing, as I have seen these majestic godlings do."
— Ryo-ten-Ryam, Kill Six Billion Demons
"I know what you're thinking. You know with that busted leg you can't reach me in time. But you're thinking maybe. Maybe. Maybe you can jump over. Jump over these mines. Get to me before I pull the trigger. Maybe you can. But maybe you can't. Maybe my gun finds you. And maybe the force of a .45 caliber bullet sends you plummeting straight to Hell. Me? I like those odds. But you? You've got an eternity to lose. So, the question is... You wanna live forever, son?"
— Door to Pyotr, Hunter: The Parenting, "Hunter's Hunters Hunted"
