Fear Of Death Quotes - Page 6

• No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Depression, Death, Pain

  "A Reply to Kenneth Tynan: The Playwright's Role". The Observer, June 29, 1958.

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• Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Agony, Want, Ends

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• Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

  Lewis Mumford

  Life, Elderly, Littles

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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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• It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible in our wake and, at the same time, are drawn to all the things that kill: whiskey and cigarettes, unprotected sex, and deep-fried burritos.

  Ariel Gore

  Sex, Writing, Burritos

  Ariel Gore (2007). “How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead: Your Words in Print and Your Name in Lights”, p.41, Three Rivers Press

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• One finds life through conquering the fear of death within one's mind. Empty the mind of all forms of attachment, make a go-for-broke charge and conquer the opponent with one decisive slash.

  Takenaka Shigekata

  Art, Warrior, Attachment

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• But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Talking, People, Dying

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• Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare. All your sins punished. I can offer you...an escape.

  Davy Jones

  Dark, Deeds, Sin

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• Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life

  Natalie Babbitt

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• When I nearly died it made me think – this can happen again any second. I better hurry and do what I want. I started to live like I never lived before. When the fear of death is gone, then nothing can bother you and nobody can stop you.

  Curtis Jackson

  Thinking, Gone, Want

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• Entertainment alleviates the fear of life, but art vanquishes the fear of death

  Dean Cavanagh

  Art, Entertainment, Vanquish

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• Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon length of days as one of the least of nature's gifts; which is able to suffer every kind of hardship, is proof against anger, craves for nothing, and reckons the trials and gruelling labours of Hercules as more desirable blessings than the amorous ease and the banquets and cushions of Sardanapallus. The things that I recommend you can grant to yourself.

  Juvenal

  Heart, Blessing, Suffering

  "The Satires".

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• Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Practice, Ego, Suffering

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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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• Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected.

  Zeena Schreck

  Self Esteem, Godly, Mundane Life

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• Of all the felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our sorrows, and counsels us in all extremities. Nay, if there were no other comfort in it than the pare exercise of so generous a virtue, even for that single reason a man would not be without it; it is a sovereign antidote against all calamities - even against the fear of death itself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Real, Exercise, Men

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• Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.

  Rebecca West

  Mom, Mother, Humanity

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• In horror of death, I took to the mountains - again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of death, capturing the fortress of the deathless unending nature of mind. Now all fear of death is over and done.

  Milarepa

  Buddhist, Mind, Mountain

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• There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of death the poets have eloquently spoken. They command the world's sympathy. But there are also discreditable anguishes, no less excruciating than the others, but of which the sufferer dare not, cannot speak. The anguish of thwarted desire, for example.

  Aldous Huxley

  Agony, Bereavement, Suffering

  Aldous Huxley “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?

  Epictetus

  Death, Evil, Dying

  Epictetus, Mary Wilder Tileston (1877). “Selections from Epictetus”

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• The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.

  William Hazlitt

  Death, Dying, Cures

  Table Talk 'On the Fear of Death'

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• That's the thing about fear. Death will kill you once, but fear kills you over and over and over, if you let it.

  Marcus Allen

  Fear, Nfl, Best Football

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• Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.

  Bertrand Russell

  Atheist, Race, Views

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• I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

  Isaac Asimov

  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

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• Mohammed knew that most people are terribly cowardly and stupid. That is why he promised two beautiful women to every courageous warrior who dies in battle. This is the kind of language a soldier understands. When he believes that he will be welcomed in this manner in the afterlife, he will be willing to give his life, he will be enthusiastic about going to battle and not fear death. You may call this primitive and you may laugh about it, but it is based on deeper wisdom. A religion must speak a man's language.

  Heinrich Himmler

  Beautiful, Stupid, Believe

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