Fear Of Death Quotes - Page 13

• 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 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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• 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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• Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

  Plato

  Philosophy, Men, Practice

  Plato (2002). “Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo”, p.104, Hackett Publishing

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• Eternity is now. Right now, right here, you're an infinite being. Once you get past the fear of death as an end, you merge with the infinite and feel the comfort and relief that this realization brings.

  Wayne Dyer

  Death, Past, Comfort

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-create Your World Your Way: Easyread Large Edition”, p.166, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• You think of yourself as an "individual person", with a unique and separate mind. You think you are born and you think you die. All your life you feel separate and alone. Sometimes desperately so. You fear death because you fear the loss of individuality. All this is an illusion. You, he, she, those things around you living or not, the stars and galaxies, the empty space in between- these are not distinct, separate objects. All is fundamentally entangled.

  Douglas Preston

  Stars, Loss, Unique

  Douglas Preston (2009). “Blasphemy”, p.307, Pan Macmillan

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• Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't know it. I fear dying, of dying I feel a sense of waste about it and I fear a sordid death, where I am incapacitated or imbecilic at the end which isn't something to be afraid of, it's something to be terrified of.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Fear, Dying, Waste

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• How does he do it? Live. With the fear of death every day. I don't fear death as much as I fear the thought of living.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Doe

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• Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it brings with it all sufferings. Nevertheless, we fear death, and we desire old age.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Evil, Leaving, Suffering

  Giacomo Leopardi (2002). “Thoughts: And, The Broom [or The Flower of the Desert]”, Hesperus Press

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• Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.

  Emile M. Cioran

  People, Life And Death, Overcoming

  "Tears and Saints". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1937.

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• I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a simple admixture — a weird yearning for death combined with a crushing sense of my own smallness and futility that presents as a fear of death. It’s maybe close to what people call dread or angst. But it’s not these things, quite. It’s more like wanting to die in order to escape the unbearable feeling of becoming aware that I’m small and weak and selfish and going without any doubt at all to die. It’s wanting to jump overboard.

  David Foster Wallace

  Crush, Selfish, Simple

  "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: An Essay". Book by David Foster Wallace, 1997.

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  Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

  Epicurus

  Intelligent, Religion, Atheism

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• To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long and powerfully, when he buries his face and his limbs deep in her from the fear of death by shell-fire, then she is his only friend, his brother, his mother; he stifles his terror and his cries in her silence and her security; she shelters him and releases him for ten seconds to live, to run, ten seconds of life; receives him again and again and often forever.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Mother, Running, Brother

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.43, Random House

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• Fear of death is worse than death itself.

  Gosho Aoyama

  Conan, Meitantei Conan

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• ...the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Anxiety, Failing, Greater

  Irvin D. Yalom (2010). “Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death”, p.49, John Wiley & Sons

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• Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.

  Stanislav Grof

  Positive, Healing, Personality

  Stanislav Grof (2000). “Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research”, p.267, SUNY Press

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• I don't fear death because I believe it is a transition. Our souls can't be destroyed. I know we are going to live in another life.

  Uri Geller

  Life, Fear, Believe

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• We must learn to live on the heavenly side and look at things from above. To contemplate all things as God sees them, as Christ beholds them, overcomes sin, defies Satan, dissolves perplexities, lifts us above trials, separates us from the world and conquers fear of death.

  A. B. Simpson

  Condolences, Overcoming, Looks

  A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

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• Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.

  H. L. Mencken

  Fear, Men, Atheism

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.54, Knopf

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• Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears.

  Nhat Hanh

  Healing, Water, Enlightenment

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2007). “Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.138, Penguin

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• Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

  Stanislav Grof

  Spiritual, Two, Dying

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• If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more prevalent than the fear of one another.

  R. D. Laing

  Spiritual, Loneliness, Anxiety

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