Fear of death Quotes

“fear of death is the amber of happiness”

— Gabriel García Márquez

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.

— Muqtada al Sadr

“Fears hide within fears…”

— Jacqueline Ripstein

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

— Alexandre Dumas

“never life live in fear of death”

— zayn malik

“Your fear of death is not a love for life. . .”

— Ayn Rand

Man does not fear death, only the suffering.

— Witold Gombrowicz

The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.

— Robert Anton Wilson

LONGEVITY, n. Uncommon extension of the fear of death.

— Ambrose Bierce

Fear of death only comes through the brittleness of the ego.

— Ram Dass

To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.

— Francis Quarles

“Bismarck once said, ‘Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.”

— Edward Luce

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

— Tsoknyi Rinpoche

“Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death. —HUNTER S. THOMPSON”

— Marc Cameron

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

— George Orwell

Don't let anyone tell you that age purchases your freedom from fear of death.

— James Lee Burke

Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

— Plato

“I just gave up one day. Around the time the news about toxic shock came out. I thought, Fuck me, man, I…

— Anne Lamott

“Taking care of loved ones in my world was not based on affection. It was based on the fear of losing them.”

— Clemantine Wamariya

To have arrived at the truth means that one no longer fears death. For death and truth are similar in that they…

— Nawal El Saadawi

“In my opinion, anyone who says they have no anxiety at all over experiencing their own physical death is not in touch…

— R. Alan Woods

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not…

— Mark Twain

Two circumstances when people lose their fear of death are: when life seems meaningless, and when the very purpose of life seems…

— Mak_786

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one…

— Socrates

“To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one…

— Socrates

He sees it in the juvenile street gangs, who live in fear of death and who propagate fear by inflicting death to…

— Ed McBain

“Throughout the whole time that Grandmama's body was in the house I was oppressed with the fear of death, for the corpse…

— Leo Tolstoy

The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death... just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but,…

— Epicurus

“He did not fear death exactly, but he had evaded it for so many years that it had come to seem formidable…

— Michael Chabon

I don't fear death. I remember my last meeting with my father when he told me, You know, tonight when I will…

— Benazir Bhutto

'Grace' is basically a death prayer. Not something of sorrow, but of just casting away any fear of death. No relief will…

— Jeff Buckley

The coward’s fear of death stems in large part from his incapacity to love anything but his own body. The inability to…

— Sebastian Junger

“To be set free by you, Jesus, is to be free indeed (John 8:36). I will certainly enjoy the pageantry, food, and…

— Scotty Smith

“The fear of death haunted me for a year. I cried whenever anyone dropped a glass or broke a picture. But even…

— Nicole Krauss

By 'coming to terms with life' I mean: the reality of death has become a definite part of my life; my life…

— Etty Hillesum

If the denial of death is self-hatred, as it is to deny our freedom and live in fear of death (which is…

— Simon Critchley

“I been sleepin for 40 days and I know Im sleeping cuz this dream’s too amazin She got gold doorknobs where her…

— Edward Sharpe Mag Zeroes

“It is a balsam," answered Don Quixote, "the receipt of which I have in my memory, with which one need have no…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Suppressing the fear of death makes it all the stronger. The point is only to know, beyond any shadow of doubt, that…

— Alan Wilson Watts

There were nights when he took a deal more rum and water than his head could carry; and then he would sometimes…

— Robert Louis Stevenson