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> [The thing is, the more you fear death, the more you die. So it really doesn't pay off. It's a fear of the dark. Like any experience in life, you wonder, Well, if this ever happens, how would I react?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-tosches/the-thing-is-the-more-you-fear-death-the-more-you-die-so-it-really/)

[Nick Tosches](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-tosches/)

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## More by Nick Tosches

> [Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-tosches/mortality-applies-to-every-aspect-of-life-the-fear-of-death-is-the/)

[Nick Tosches](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-tosches/)

> [They say nobody has the attention span to read great books early in life. If I start to read something good, I'll look and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-tosches/they-say-nobody-has-the-attention-span-to-read-great-books-early-in/)

[Nick Tosches](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-tosches/)

> [Steiner has here transformed the vaporous conceptions of his life, the vapors of what never was and never will be, from their aeriform state…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-tosches/steiner-has-here-transformed-the-vaporous-conceptions-of-his-life-the/)

[Nick Tosches](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-tosches/)

> [The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-tosches/the-older-you-get-the-more-you-live-with-ghosts/)

[Nick Tosches](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-tosches/)

> [You're never gonna outwrite the movement of the white clouds and the blue sky. You're never going to. There are times when I try…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-tosches/you-re-never-gonna-outwrite-the-movement-of-the-white-clouds-and-the/)

[Nick Tosches](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-tosches/)

> [Johnny Depp is, to me, a rare kindred spirit with like sensibilities, who has escaped the beast. He's probably one of the few people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-tosches/johnny-depp-is-to-me-a-rare-kindred-spirit-with-like-sensibilities/)

[Nick Tosches](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-tosches/)

> [“I believe in the power of origins, a belief that, as Ecclesiastes put it, 'that wich is done is that wich shall be done:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-tosches/i-believe-in-the-power-of-origins-a-belief-that-as-ecclesiastes-put/)

[Nick Tosches](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-tosches/)

> [The appeal for drugs has dwindled. Except for actual opium. If I could get real opium, I'd stir it in my hot coffee every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-tosches/the-appeal-for-drugs-has-dwindled-except-for-actual-opium-if-i-could/)

[Nick Tosches](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-tosches/)

> [My father, God bless him, thought it was such an impossible desire to be able to make a living the way I do. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-tosches/my-father-god-bless-him-thought-it-was-such-an-impossible-desire-to/)

[Nick Tosches](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-tosches/)

> [The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-tosches/the-things-i-wanted-to-be-when-i-was-a-kid-were-an-archeologist/)

[Nick Tosches](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-tosches/)

> [As a young man, I felt a need to communicate with somebody or something, but it seemed in my own particular environment that that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-tosches/as-a-young-man-i-felt-a-need-to-communicate-with-somebody-or/)

[Nick Tosches](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-tosches/)

> [I wanted to just get a job so I could have enough money for my own apartment and be able to get drunk. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-tosches/i-wanted-to-just-get-a-job-so-i-could-have-enough-money-for-my-own/)

[Nick Tosches](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-tosches/)

> [“And, of course, that is what all of this is - all of this: the one song, ever changing, ever reincarnated, that speaks somehow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-tosches/and-of-course-that-is-what-all-of-this-is-all-of-this-the-one-song/)

[Nick Tosches](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-tosches/)

> [You got guys that are so old, you see them eating lunch, the drool's just coming from their mouth, and they're sending around memos…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-tosches/you-got-guys-that-are-so-old-you-see-them-eating-lunch-the-drool-s/)

[Nick Tosches](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-tosches/)

> [I don't have a college degree.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-tosches/i-don-t-have-a-college-degree/)

[Nick Tosches](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-tosches/)

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