The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
People living deeply have no fear of death.
Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.
Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
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.
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.
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION.
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
He who doesn't fear death dies only once.
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
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.
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.
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
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