Fear Of Death Quotes - Page 12

• He [The Improved Man] will enjoy not only the sunshine of life, but will bear with fortitude the darkest days. He will have no fear of death. About the grave, there will be no terrors, and his life will end as serenely as the sun rises.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Death, Sunshine, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4287, Library of Alexandria

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• If a man considers that he is born, he cannot avoid the fear of death. Let him find out if he has been born or if the Self has any birth. He will discover that the Self always exists, that the body that is born resolves itself into thought and that the emergence of thought is the root of all mischief. Find from where thoughts emerge. Then you will be able to abide in the ever-present inmost Self and be free from the idea of birth or the fear of death.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Fear, Men, Self

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• I that in heill wes and gladnes Am trublit now with gret seiknes And feblit with infermite: Timor Mortis conturbat me.* * Fear of Death troubles me.

  William Dunbar

  Fear, Trouble

  c.1505 'Lament for the Makaris', stanza 1. The Latin is from the Office for the Dead:'The fear of death disturbs me'.

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• I have no fear of death, so I don't think about it. I love the adrenalin kick that danger brings. Others get their kicks bungee jumping from tall buildings. I'm very, very competitive. I want to be the best at everything I do. It's not driving - it's everything - it might be playing my guitar, I try to be the best at it as I possibly can.

  Lewis Hamilton

  Thinking, Jumping, Guitar

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• Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Dear Ones, Leaving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• I think What Dreams May Come is the most important (read effective) book I've written. It has caused a number of readers to lose their fear of death the finest tribute any writer could receive. ... Somewhere In Time is my favorite novel.

  Richard Matheson

  Dream, Book, Thinking

  "ED GORMAN CALLING: We Talk to Richard Matheson". www.mysteryfile.com.

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• If thou hadst a good conscience thou wouldst not greatly fear death.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Ifs, Conscience

  Thomas A Kempis, Wyatt North (1617). “The Imitation of Christ”, p.29, Wyatt North Publishing, LLC

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• Failing at something is one thing, but Buddhism tells us that it is up to us how we interpret that failure [Buddhism] a philosophy and way of life that resonates with me I identify with it. I agree with so much of the sentiment behind it. I enjoy the liberating effect it's had on me to get back into the game Buddhism, with its concepts of karma and rebirth, have freed me from the twin fears of death and life without rugby, like life, will also come to an end.

  Jonny Wilkinson

  Karma, Philosophy, Buddhism

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• I fought, and therefore, believed in my victory. There is more to the fact that I didn't fear death and preferred a brave death instead of a life of an idiot.

  Giordano Bruno

  Brave, Victory, Facts

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• The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death.

  Willa Cather

  Heart, Too Much, Alive

  Willa Cather (2015). “O Pioneers”, p.129, Xist Publishing

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• If the denial of death is self-hatred, as it is to deny our freedom and live in fear of death (which is to say, to live in a form of bondage), then the acceptance and affirmation of death is indeed a form of self-love. But I'd want to make a distinction between a form of self-love which is essential to what it means to be human, and a narcissism of self-regard, like Rousseau's distinction between amour de soi and amour propre, self-love and pride.

  Simon Critchley

  Mean, Pride, Acceptance

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• Whenever I visit a market and see the chickens crowded together in tiny cages that give them no room to move around and spread their wings and the fish slowly drowning in the air, my heart goes out to them. People have to learn to think about animals in a different way, as sentient beings who love life and fear death. I urge everyone who can to adopt a compassionate vegetarian diet.

  Dalai Lama

  Moving, Heart, Love Life

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• I adore life but I dont fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.

  Georges Simenon

  Late, Adore, Dies

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• Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted experience, in which body, mind, and nature are the same. This retreat from wonder, the backing away like lobsters into safe crannies, the desperate instinct that our life passes unlived, is reflected in proliferation without joy, corrosive money rot, the gross befouling of the earth and air and water from which we came.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Air, Water, Joy

  Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.68, Penguin

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• It's an unavoidable truth. Fear of life closes off more opportunities for us than fear of death ever does.

  Agnes Moorehead

  Life, Death, Truth

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Lady Dance's music wasn't a magic charm. I'd misunderstood. We had all failed to understand. The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive. 'Rejoice,' came the soft voice of Lady Dance in my mind. 'Watch the moon and stars...' Death had ruled my life till I met Lady Dance. Her dance had set me free.

  Jackie French

  Song, Stars, Moon

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• Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  O Magazine Interview, May 2004.

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• So, the fear of death might be described as the fear of not being able to become whom one had planned to be.

  Pascal Mercier

  Might, Able

  Pascal Mercier (2009). “Night Train To Lisbon”, p.102, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Never live life in fear of death

  Zayn Malik

  Live Life

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• A personal relationship with God enhances life. First, it enables us to accept our limitations without being frustrated by them. It assures us that problems we can't solve are not necessarily insoluble. Second, when we need it, God offers us a sense of forgiveness, a sense of cleansing from our incompleteness. . . . Last and perhaps most important, a personal relationship with God redeems us from the fear of death. We needn't be afraid that all our good deeds will vanish when we die.

  Harold S. Kushner

  God, Frustrated, Important

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• For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man is quick at seizing advantages, and the stupid man has no fear of death.

  Sun Tzu

  Wise, Stupid, Men

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.16, Xist Publishing

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• There is no governor anywhere. You are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. If anybody could go into dhyana at will, nobody could be controlled - by fear of prison, by fear of whips or electroshock, by fear of death, even. All existing society is based on keeping those fears alive, to control the masses. Ten people who know would be more dangerous than a million armed anarchists.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  People, Would Be, Alive

  "The Trick Top Hat". Book by Robert Anton Wilson within the Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy, 1979.

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• I have no fear of death. We all die. I consider my remaining days to be like money in the bank. When it is all gone, I will be repossessed.

  Roger Ebert

  Gone, No Fear, Dies

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• I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.

  James Salter

  Way, Obsessed, Seems

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If it be aught toward the general good, Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other, And I will look on both indifferently; For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honor more than I fear death.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Names, Honor

  William Shakespeare (2003). “Untitled”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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