Fear Of Death Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• What shall he fear that does not fear death.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Death, Dying, Doe

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• We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

  Ann Landers

  Death, Dying, Needs

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• Timor mortis conturbat me. The fear of death disturbs me.

  William Dunbar

  Chaos

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• Do it now and avoid the June rush! Fear death by water!

  Diane Duane

  June, Water

  Diane Duane (2003). “Deep Wizardry”, p.80, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

  Publilius Syrus

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 511, 1856.

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• I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

  Steven Seagal

  Important, No Fear, Have No Fear

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• The idea of enemies is awful it makes one stop remembering eternity and the fear of death. That is what enemies are. Possessions are the same as enemies only less so, they too make one
  forget eternity and the fear of death.

  Gertrude Stein

  Ideas, Enemy, Awful

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.42, Random House

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• Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Love, Together, Stronger

  Ivan Turgenev (2013). “Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)”, p.2630, Delphi Classics

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• I have absolutely no fear of death. Why would I? There's nothing to fear-only joy to experience.

  Don Piper

  Joy, No Fear

  Don Piper, Cecil Murphey (2006). “90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life”, p.196, Revell

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• Never fear Death for you will feel aroused by his sleep. Never cheat death or he will slap you with a sentence of misery for the defeat.

  Suzy Kassem

  Sleep, Misery, Defeat

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• Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry, about the country, the suburbs and the seaside. Then there comes love... and increasingly; the fear of death.

  John Betjeman

  Country, Topography, Chiefs

  Radio Talk on BBC Third Programme, 1949.

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• Your prayer must be for a healthy mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that has no fear of death, deems length of life the least of nature's gifts and is able to bear any kind of sufferings, knows neither wrath nor desire and believes the woes and hard labors of Hercules better than the loves and feasts and downy cushions of Sardanapalus. Reveal what you are able to give yourself; the only path to a life of tranquility lies through virtue.

  Juvenal

  Prayer, Lying, Believe

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• I don't fear death; I fear remaining silent in the face of injustice. I am young and I want to live. But I say to those that would eliminate my voice: I am ready, wherever and whenever you might strike. You can cut down the flower, but nothing can stop the coming of the spring.

  Malalai Joya

  Spring, Flower, Cutting

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• The fear of death is for all of us everywhere, but for the great intelligence of the opium eater it is beautifully narrowed into the crux of drugs.

  John Cheever

  Death, Drug, Crux

  John Cheever (2010). “Falconer”, p.45, Vintage

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• Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Men, Evil, Sorrow

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• I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death!

  Julian Barnes

  Thinking, Morbid, Rational

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• Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.

  William Hazlitt

  Ends, Cures, Wells

  Table Talk "On the Fear of Death" (1822)

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• The samurais were very interested in Zen because they admired the tremendous precision that the Zen Masters had, their lack of fear and pain and their absolute lack of fear of death.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Health, Buddhism

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• He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.

  Cato the Elder

  Lost, Covetousness

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• Laughter allows us to get past the fear of death.

  Deepak Chopra

  Laughter, Past, Humour

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