Anguish Quote by Anonymous

Death is the mother of beauty, mystical, Within whose burning bosom we devise Our earthly mothers waiting, sleeplessly.

— Wallace Stevens

Hence the tension, the anxiety, the anguish of humanity. The more you fight with death, the more anxiety-ridden you will become, you are bound…

— Rajneesh

The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.

— Irvin D. Yalom

If you are anxious about death, then you don't have a sense of the oneness of things - you feel that after death, you…

— Sidney Poitier

“I said that the question about death, and more precisely, the confusion about death, lies at the very heart of human understanding, and in…

— Alexander Schmemann

“come to believe that the fear of death is always greatest in those who feel that they have not lived their life fully. A…

— Irvin D. Yalom

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.

— Tryon Edwards

“Our deep irrational feelings of death anxiety have been attributed to multiple sources. In part, they may arise from evolved self-protection mechanisms or survival…

— Richard J. Borden

Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“The fear of death is an animal passion which must be overcome. Only those who believe in a future life and tremble for sins…

— Anton Chekhov

...the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear…

— Irvin D. Yalom

Uncommon extension of the fear of death.

— Ambrose Bierce