Fear Of Dying Quotes

People help way more than we expect, way more than makes sense. But when you talk to people called heroes, they often say they did it for themselves. In one case, a hero said that the cost of not doing it is so great, the sense of shame, when he knew that he was strong enough, that the fear of not doing anything was more frightening than the fear of dying.

Verily, a man without fear is either dead or happy to die.

Death frees from the fear of dying

Basically, when I'm writing something, I think about what is the subject of the piece. The subject of the piece is our fear of getting old, which is a variation on our fear of dying.

I do not have any fears, no fear of dying, of failure, of anything; that means I am very dangerous for my opponents.

I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. Were loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.

I realized I had written maybe, I dunno, the first ever asexual love song. Where it's really just about a fear of dying alone - you need contact, you need love, you need empathy. You need this relationship but if there's no sex involved, people act like it's not a legitimate relationship.

When we usually think of fears, in comics or in films, it's most often fears on a relatively superficial level: fear of murderous insects, of ghosts, of zombies, or even fear of dying.

Joy of living is sustainable; fear of dying is not.

The best part of chronic head lice is it takes away your fear of dying alone.

I'm slightly pessimistic about human nature, about how close it's possible to bond with those around you. Dying alone is a deep fear for most people. I'm not scared of death but I'm scared of dying scared. Maybe everything else in life comes from those two points: the separation anxiety of childhood and the ultimate fear of dying alone.

Because the biological mechanisms that affect our health and well-being are so dynamic, when people change their diet and lifestyle, they usually feel so much better, so quickly; it reframes the reason for changing from fear of dying to joy of living. Also, the support that patients give each other is a powerful motivator.

Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than when his only brother was killed in the flour mill or when his children died, stronger even than when he was a child and it first occurred to him that he must try to understand what it could mean not to be alive -- to be not in darkness, not in unfeeling -- to be not being, not to be.

God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.

Our enemy now is a stateless network of religious extremists. They do not obey the laws of war, they hide among peaceful populations and launch surprise attacks on civilians. They have no armed forces per se, no territory or citizens to defend and no fear of dying during their attacks.

Unlike previous wars, our enemy now is a stateless network of religious extremists. They do not obey the laws of war, they hide among peaceful populations and launch surprise attacks on civilians. They have no armed forces per se, no territory or citizens to defend and no fear of dying during their attacks. Information is our primary weapon against this enemy, and intelligence gathered from captured operatives is perhaps the most effective means of preventing future attacks.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

As women glide from their twenties to thirties, Shazzer argues, the balance of power subtly shifts. Even the most outrageous minxes lose their nerve, wrestling with the first twinges of existential angst: fears of dying alone and being found three weeks later half-eaten by an Alsatian.

To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying.

Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Courage is not the absence of fear...