Voldemort: (mid-battle) There is nothing worse than death, Dumbledore!
Dumbledore: You are quite wrong. Indeed, your failure to understand that there are things much worse than death has always been your greatest weakness...
Dumbledore: You are quite wrong. Indeed, your failure to understand that there are things much worse than death has always been your greatest weakness...
"Every day I'm dead a little longer, Mister Conagher. I have seen the other side. There is nothing there. Fix. This. Machine."
—Blutarch Mann, "Team Fortress 2: Loose Canon"
"Meeting you... Having you work with me on my stupid dream of becoming a hermit... Made every day a happy one. But... when I'm alone... I can't help but start thinking... About the day that I die. The more I think... The more I think... The more scared I get. So scared... So scared... That I can't take it anymore."
—Yoshika, Suikakasen
"We know the torments that lie behind us, but what torment awaits beyond this existence? All the more reason to hold onto life, with all claws! ...No matter the cost...!"
— The Emperor, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
Goetia: It pains me to ask this, but I must know! Why...do you fight? Why do you not submit to me? Why do you keep fighting so hard?
Fujimaru: That's obvious. To live!
Goetia: I see. So you weren't even protecting humanity. Then we were mistaken. We completely overestimated you. You longed for life and feared death. And while fearing death, you defeated us in our quest for eternity.
Fujimaru: That's obvious. To live!
Goetia: I see. So you weren't even protecting humanity. Then we were mistaken. We completely overestimated you. You longed for life and feared death. And while fearing death, you defeated us in our quest for eternity.
Caderousse: To imprison me for life, how merciful!
Abbé Busoni: You thought it a mercy then, miserable wretch! The coward who feared death rejoiced at perpetual disgrace; for like all galley-slaves, you said, ‘I may escape from prison, I cannot from the grave.’
Abbé Busoni: You thought it a mercy then, miserable wretch! The coward who feared death rejoiced at perpetual disgrace; for like all galley-slaves, you said, ‘I may escape from prison, I cannot from the grave.’
Haruki: Supposing I died... someone would be sad. Perhaps with my photograph gazed at, I might be mentioned in talk about the past, like ‘he was once like this.’ Only that. After several years, I'll become a name that exists only in a family tree, and several decades even later,-
Rina: Well... nobody would remember, perhaps.
Haruki: By the time that comes, there'll be no signs that I have even ever lived in the first place. The same as if I wasn't even there in the first place... and so, what are we living for right now?
Rina: Haruki... Then, is all the time you're spending with me also pointless?
Haruki: That's not it! ... Of course I am happy. And it's because of this, that when I think that this time of happiness will one day be gone without a trace, ------... I feel scared, unbearably so.
Rina: Well... nobody would remember, perhaps.
Haruki: By the time that comes, there'll be no signs that I have even ever lived in the first place. The same as if I wasn't even there in the first place... and so, what are we living for right now?
Rina: Haruki... Then, is all the time you're spending with me also pointless?
Haruki: That's not it! ... Of course I am happy. And it's because of this, that when I think that this time of happiness will one day be gone without a trace, ------... I feel scared, unbearably so.
Eduardo: It's... a coffin. My coffin.
Garret: So that's your fear? "The Big D"?
Eduardo: At least I have a normal fear. At least I'm not afraid of maggots!
"From antiquity to present day, regardless of how society and civilization evolve... Death has been a constant presence that none have ever escaped. Whether it is one's own, or that of someone close, death is always a difficult thing to accept. This is an immutable reality—a value shared by all, no matter the age in which they live."
—The Storyteller, PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
