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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Lord God, I confess that my son/daughter is loosed from all bondage—set free by the precious blood of Jesus. No past, present,… — Mike Shreve Copy Share Image
“They say that it is the fear of death and of what comes after death that makes men turn to religion as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All men fear death. It’s a natural fear that consumes us all. We fear death because we feel that we haven’t loved… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“Part of the apparently conventional nature of our relationships is the threat of separation and death. This body dies. That body dies.… — Adi Da Samraj Copy Share Image
A personal relationship with God enhances life. First, it enables us to accept our limitations without being frustrated by them. It assures… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
“You really do love him, don’t you?” she said quietly. Vadim blinked, then looked to the side, without seeing colours and patterns,… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
“Death is a strange thing. People live their whole lives as if it does not exist, and yet it's often one of… — Fredrik Backman 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
“What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted?… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“In my hands is power. The power to hear or to destroy. To grant life or to cause death. I revere this… — J.D. Robb Copy Share Image
“On differing perspectives: "At birth, we're yanked from a warm, safe place and thrust into a world we have no way of… — Rick Reynolds Copy Share Image
“However hard he tried, he could never manage to make himself visible to human eyes and not because he can't, since for… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily view death as something negative. Death gives meaning to life. Living in fear of death is living in denial.… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
“We do not rush toward death, we flee the catastrophe of birth, survivors struggling to forget it. Fear of death is merely… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“What is there in music that it should so stir our deeps? We are all ordinarily in a state of desperation; such… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Briefly, this human belief in a sexual bond rests on a principle of which the modern mind has made a very inadequate… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
But how to know the falsity of death? How can we know there is no death? Until we know that, our fear… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“No.” The word shattered Felsted’s question like an ugly, stained-glass window. “I chose poison because you deserved it. Because I wanted to… — S.G. Night Copy Share Image
“Doctor: 'You do not fear death. You think this makes you strong. It makes you weak.' Bruce: 'Why?' Doctor: 'How can you… — The Dark Knight Rises Copy Share Image
“How do I know that the love of life is not a delusion? Or that the fear of death is not like… — Chuang Tzu Copy Share Image
The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. We are all absolutely… — Robert Anton Wilson 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
“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 Goddess-centered art we have been examining, with its striking absence of images of male domination or warfare, seems to have reflected… — Riane Eisler 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
“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
