“For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that… — Plato Copy Share Image
When you do not realize that you are one with the river, or one with the universe, you have fear. Whether it… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't know… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Death must simply become the discreet but dignified exit of a peaceful person from a helpful society that is not torn, not… — Philippe Aries Copy Share Image
Why do you hunger for length of days? The point of life is to follow reason and the divine spirit and to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
Lady Dance's music wasn't a magic charm. I'd misunderstood. We had all failed to understand. The song and dance didn't stop us… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Mohammed knew that most people are terribly cowardly and stupid. That is why he promised two beautiful women to every courageous warrior… — Heinrich Himmler Copy Share Image
“There are two fundamentally different ways for the strong to bend down to the weak, for the rich to help the poor,… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
“You should pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body. Ask for a stout heart that has no fear of death,… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
“Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about his religion. Respect others in… — L.T. Rorke Copy Share Image
“The fear of abandonment forced me to comply as a child, but I’m not forced to comply anymore. The key people in… — Christina Enevoldsen Copy Share Image
“We Christians don’t get to send our lives through the rinse cycle before showing up to church. We come as we are—no… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“The idea of safety had shrunk into particles - one snug moment, then the next. Meanwhile, the brain piped fugues of worry… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“A lot can be determined by the choices we make, even if the action is initiated by self-preservation. Many ... no, most… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
The thing is, the more you fear death, the more you die. So it really doesn't pay off. It's a fear of… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It is the fear of death - 24/7 in every shade of hospital white and doomsday black--that sells the pharmaceutical, political, financial,… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
The desire to live life to its fullest, to acquire more knowledge, to abandon the economic treadmill, are all typical reactions to… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
“We must have reasonable fear of death or grave bodily harm when we employ this level of force. Reasonable fear is starkly… — Massad Ayoob Copy Share Image
My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
He [The Improved Man] will enjoy not only the sunshine of life, but will bear with fortitude the darkest days. He will… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. All sensation and consciousness… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“First, I have culled evidence that physical death is not the end of the road for any of us. I know this… — Mark Ireland Copy Share Image
I have a certainty about eternity that is a wonderful thing, and I thank God for giving me that certainty. I do… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
This surpassed the fear of death. Death would be a mercy if it would make the feeling stop, the uncontrollable panic mingling… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
“It comes to me that fear of death is, love of the world. The desire not to be excluded from the world.… — Alayna Munce Copy Share Image
“Don‘t worry: there‘ll come a time when all this will make sense to you. Then your laughter will end to be replaced… — Peer-E-Kamil Copy Share Image
But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
Jesus' death wasn't to free us from dying, but to free us from the fear of death. Jesus came to liberate us… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
He suddenly opened his eyes and looked at everyone in the room. It was a terrible gaze, mad or maybe furious and… — Svetlana Alliluyeva Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“The major fear of man is the fear of death. Death is not the end of existence, death is separation. A man… — Kingsley Opuwari Manuel Copy Share Image
“The air delighted her nose—fresher and crisper compared to the air in the grimy ghetto, even better than in the city. She… — Cate Campbell Beatty Copy Share Image
“(ghost of)ACHILLES: How can I force obedience on this? In other times I've used the fear of death to make a woman… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“Life is too short,time run so fast,everything around change all the time only one thing you can do it is find peace… — Chunyanuch Copy Share Image
“The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,” he said. “The inexhaustibility.” “I understand.” “The whole huge nameless thing.” “Yes, absolutely.” “The massive… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image