Fear Of Dying Quotes

• He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

  Giovanni Falcone

  Death, Fear, Dying

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• Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Fear, Failure

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

  Tecumseh

  Life, Death, Wisdom

  "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19

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• I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Death, Sarcastic

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• The idea is to die young as late as possible.

  Ashley Montagu

  Motivational, Death, Kids

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• Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

  Jim Butcher

  Bible, Shadow Of Death, Death Of A Loved One

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.997, Penguin

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• The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

  Mark Twain

  Positive, Death, Spiritual

  "A Voice Crying In The Wilderness". Book by Edward Abbey, 1989.

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• Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

  Susan Ertz

  Inspirational, Death, Sunday

  Anger in the Sky ch. 5 (1943)

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• We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

  David Sarnoff

  Death, Fear, Funeral

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• Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

  Tecumseh

  Death, Song, Hero

  "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Buddhist

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• Courage is not the absence of fear...

  Richard Stengel

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

  "Mandela: His 8 Lessons of Leadership" by Richard Stengel, content.time.com. July 9, 2008.

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• Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Death, People, Eulogy

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• To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

  J. K. Rowling

  Death, Travel, Adventure

  J. K. Rowling (2002). “Spark Notes Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone”, Spark Notes

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• The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Death

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• Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

  Francis Bacon

  Death, Fear, Children

  Essays "Of Death" (1625)

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• People living deeply have no fear of death.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Inspiring, Death

  "The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939)". Book by Anais Nin, 1970.

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• Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Spiritual, Emotional

  "Because I could not stop for death" l. 1 (ca. 1862)

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• I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

  Francis Bacon

  Death, Fear, Believe

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.636

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• Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

  Tecumseh

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Fear

  "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Happiness, Happy, Laughing

  "Of the Heart". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

  Francis Beaumont

  Death, Sleep, Men

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1778). “The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Humorous lieutenant. Faithfl shepherdess. Mad lover. Loyal subject. Rule a wife and have a wife”, p.60

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• People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.

  Marcel Proust

  Death, Thinking, People

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained”, Vintage

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• Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

  William Shakespeare

  Success, Death, Veterans Day

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

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