“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 Copy Share Image
“Surya explained to him how fear of death makes plants seek nourishment and grow towards sunlight and water. Fear of death is… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“How can you move faster than possible,” the other man asked, “fight longer than possible, if not from the most powerful impulse… — Greg Cox Copy Share Image
Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry..about the country, the suburbs and the seaside... then there come's love... and… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
“For humans, not fearing death is 99% a blessing, and only 1% a curse.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“We enjoy lovely music, beautiful paintings, a thousand intellectual delicacies, but we have no idea of their cost, to those who invented… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“…The silence spreads. I talk and must talk. So I speak to him and say to him: "Comrade, I did not want… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
Everybody hates death, fears death, but only those, the believers who know the life after death and the reward after death, would… — Mohamed Atta Copy Share Image
[On the ancient Venus figurines:] If the central religious figure was a woman giving birth and not, as in our time, a… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
“Later, Hobbes will stress the notion central to Augustan thinking, the binary of passion and reason: The Passions that encline men to… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“I said to the doctor, who was with us daily. 'He's got a wonderful will to live, hasn't he?' 'Would you put… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear. — G. Gordon Liddy Copy Share Image
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
“In an unforgettable scene from All Quiet on the Western Front, a young German soldier examines the body of a Frenchman he… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I think my work is about the different strategies man has invented to deal with desire, frustration, fear of death, exhaustion. It's… — Camille Henrot Copy Share Image
I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be. It's wrong to say "everybody," but… — James Salter Copy Share Image