Fear Of Death Quotes - Page 5

• No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others

  Albert Schweitzer

  Men, Giving, Needs

  Albert Schweitzer (1958). “A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer”, Boston : [s.n.], 1958 (Boston : H.N. Sawyer Company)

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• i will show you fear in a handful of dust." t.s. eliot we don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.

  T. S. Eliot

  Dust, Absence, Disappear

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• If a general and his men fear death and are apprehensive over possible defeat, then they will unavoidably suffer defeat and death. But if they make up their minds, from the general down to the last footsoldier, not to think of living but only of standing in one place and facing death together, then, though they may have no other thought than meeting death, they will instead hold on to life and gain victory.

  Yoshida Shoin

  Men, Thinking, Mind

  "Yoshida Shoin Zenshu" by Yoshida Shoin, vol. I, 1938.

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• We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage "People living deeply have no fear of death.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational Life, People, No Fear

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• When you do not realize that you are one with the river, or one with the universe, you have fear. Whether it is separated into drops or not, water is water. Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Rivers

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• How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

  George MacDonald

  Death, Sunset, Literature

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• More people have a fear of speaking than a fear of death. So at a funeral, most people would want to be the person in the coffin rather than the person delivering the eulogy!

  Geoffrey Rush

  People, Funeral, Eulogy

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.

  George Orwell

  Life And Death, Alive, Want

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.238, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will to live. And the greater the fear of death, the greater the struggle to keep on living.

  Mo Yan

  Struggle, Dying, Stronger

  Mo Yan (2013). “Big Breasts and Wide Hips: A Novel”, p.467, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• We are all, always, the desire not to die. This desire is as immeasurable and varied as life's complexity, but at bottom this is what it is: To continue to be, to be more and more, to develop and to endure. All the force we have, all our energy and clearness of mind serve to intensify themselves in one way or another. We intensify ourselves with new impressions, new sensations, new ideas. We endeavour to take what we do not have and to add it to ourselves. Humanity is the desire for novelty founded upon the fear of death. That is what it is.

  Henri Barbusse

  Wisdom, Ideas, Humanity

  "The Inferno". Book by Henri Barbusse, 1917.

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• When you see that you are not the body, that the body comprises only a small fraction of the aggregate of your awareness, then death is no fear, life is no fear, there is no fear.

  Frederick Lenz

  Death, Body, No Fear

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• I don't fear death, but I sure don't like those three-footers for par.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Golf, Three, Funny Golf

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• I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.

  Socrates

  Apology, Men, Yield

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• He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "Where is it? What death?" There was no fear because there was no death. In place of death there was light.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Light, No Fear, Former

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “The Death of Ivan Ilych: English-Russian Parallel Text Edition”, p.122, Lulu.com

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• The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

  Joseph Addison

  Death, People, Dying

  Joseph Addison (1721). “Remarks on several parts of Italy , &c in the years 1701, 1702, 1703. The Tatler. By Isaac Bickerstaffe, esq. The Spectator, no.1-89”, p.458

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• As for me, I would rather be a worm in a wild apple than a son of man. But we are what we are, and we might remember not to hate any person, for all are vicious; And not to be astonished at any evil, all are deserved; And not to fear death; it is the only way to be cleansed.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Hate, Son, Men

  Robinson Jeffers, Albert Gelpi (2003). “The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers”, p.172, Stanford University Press

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• The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

  Salvador Dali

  Sad Life, Desire, Artistic

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• The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

  Stanislav Grof

  World, Way, Individual

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• Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

  Cecil Beaton

  Mean, Reality, Airline Business

  Cecil Beaton (1955). “I take great pleasure”

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• Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going to the popularized version of Heaven. I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

  Isaac Asimov

  Death, Suicide, Atheist

  Isaac Asimov (1992). “Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine”

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• Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.

  Brad Pitt

  Religious, Feelings, Needs

  "Brad Pitt talks about Terrence Malick and The Tree of Life" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2011.

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• I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience.

  Katy Butler

  Thinking, People, Modern

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Believe, Hero, Doe

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• The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of life. Life in its becoming is always shedding death, and on the point of death. The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure - fearlessness and achievement.

  Joseph Campbell

  Fear, Recovery, Adventure

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.188, Anchor

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• I cannot accept any concept of God based on the fear of life or the fear of death, or blind faith. I cannot prove to you that there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him I would be a liar.

  Albert Einstein

  Liars, Would Be, Speak

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.42, St. Martin's Press

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