Top 100 Quotes About Afraid Of Death
#1. I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage, but that - don't go to the funeral before the day of the funeral.
Valerie Harper
#2. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death. Most of us have fear in one form or another; and where there is fear there is no intelligence.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#3. My men and women are loyal and will fight to the bloody end," he said, his broad shoulders holding the weight of a staggering number of lives, "but I'm afraid I am about to lead them into certain death.
Nalini Singh
#4. At every stage in life you think about death. But teenagers especially are sort of invincible. They're not supposed to be thinking about dying yet, or else they'd be too afraid to live.
Claire Danes
#5. Those who are afraid of what comes after death because it is unknown may tend to be those who cannot face the unknown in life.
Robert E. Neale
#6. Even if you look at Iran, those campaigners for human rights there, they don't want to have anything to do with America, because they are afraid that having American support will be the kiss of death for their movement. And that's really tragic.
Yaroslav Trofimov
#7. I know I'm someone powerful, someone dangerous. A grim smile tugs at my lips despite my current circumstances. I know I'm not afraid of pain or death. And these men and women? They should be afraid of me. Because whoever I am, I am violent, and I will be having my revenge.
Laura Thalassa
#8. I ain't afraid of dyin', not a bit, only I don't want to die if I can help it.
Bram Stoker
#9. I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.
Loretta Young
#11. Why are you afraid of death?
Because you don't understand the perfect love of Jesus.
Because perfect love casts out
fear.
Ivor Myers
#12. Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.
Epicurus
#13. I am not afraid of death, Abigail. I am afraid that I might draw back and not be bold in proclaiming the gospel." He hesitated, then said, "And I am afraid that I might not stand firm. That under the heel of the enemy, in pain, I might deny my Lord.
Janette Oke
#14. He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn't yet lived.
Franz Kafka
#15. Tired of life, afraid of death, not unlike
A lost brig, toy of ebb and flow on the ocean,
My soul weighs anchor for a frightful shipwreck.
Paul Verlaine
#16. Ironically, the worship of of death as a strategy for coping with our underlying fear of death's power does not truly give us solace. It is deeply anxiety producing. The more we watch spectacles of death, of random violence and cruelty, the more afraid we become in our daily lives.
Bell Hooks
#17. To ignore death and to be afraid of it is dumb because everyone is going to face it at some point. If you look at death and the reality of it, you realize that we're all going to die, so let's use this time on Earth to be positive and do good things.
Ray Toro
#18. Motherhood didn't make you stronger; it made you vulnerable and afraid of what death could steal from you.
Tess Gerritsen
#19. And I'll look back at him because I shan't be able to help it, remembering about being young, and about being made love to and making love, about pain and dancing and not being afraid of death, about all music I've ever loved, and every time I've been happy.
Jean Rhys
#20. It would be an exaggeration to say I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not afraid of what comes after, because I'm not a believer.
Christian De Duve
#21. It's not that I'm afraid of death, but afraid of the thought of my people laid to rest; They saying there is 6 million ways of death but not even one way to fade the stress.
Aaron Dontez Yates
#22. I'm not afraid of being dead. I'm just afraid of what you might have to go through to get there.
Pamela Bone
#23. If Death is your father, you don't ever have to worry about what part of his body the disease will strike next. If Death is your lover, you don't have to be afraid that he will ever leave you.
Francesca Lia Block
#24. I am made only for passion; it is the temperature of love that I cannot endure. I am afraid, and I think it is death- everything but passion seems like death to me. Only in fever do I feel life.
Anais Nin
#25. I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it.
It's just getting out of one car, and into another.
John Lennon
#26. When I was abandoned by everybody, in my greatest weakness, trembling and afraid of death, when I was persecuted by this wicked world, then I often felt most surely the divine power in this name, Jesus Christ ... So, by God's grace, I will live and die for that name.
Martin Luther
#27. Do you have any coffee?' ... 'It stunts my growth, and I'm afraid of death.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#28. There's nothing to be afraid of. We're just saying goodbye.
Joe Kelly
#29. Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it ... And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day.
Suzanne Collins
#30. I'm not afraid to fail ... I'm scared to death of dying and having the Lord say to me, 'Angelica, this is what you might have done had you trusted more.
Mother Angelica
#31. Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
James F. Byrnes
#32. I am afraid of death. I believe nothing, and therefore like many who believe nothing I must make something, and that something is the meaning which I give my life.
Anne Rice
#33. Isn't it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady ... should so earnestly wish for death, as well?
Alan Brennert
#34. I don't mean to imply that I'm afraid of Death. I'm just not ready to go out on a date with him.
Dean Koontz
#35. We are so afraid of the idea of having to die ... that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn ...
Jose Saramago
#36. One thing I knew about the novelist's task: when in doubt, write; when empty, write; when afraid, write. Nothing is more impenetrable than the blank page. The blank page is the void, the absence of sense and feeling, the white light of literary death.
Philip Sington
#37. I truly believe I am not afraid of death. What I shrink from, I believe, is the shame of dying as stupid and befuddled as I am.
J.M. Coetzee
#38. I used to be afraid of two things - being alone and not being able to write. Since Albert's death, I don't care about writing or about other people.
Hans-Uwe Bauer
#39. It is not death I fear, not anymore. I've faced dying too many times to be afraid of it.
Victoria Aveyard
#40. Grandfather : Death is nothing to be afraid of.
Renee : It's not death I'm afraid of.
Grandfather: What is it, then?
Renee : LIFE
Yvonne Wood
#42. Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.
David Carradine
#43. Afraid? Of whom am I afraid? Not death. For who is he?
Emily Dickinson
#44. Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl
Rumi
#45. You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you'd run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat - coward!
Homer
#46. On days where I feel the karma is in balance I'm not afraid of death. And when I feel it's weighing heavily on the negative side, then I get very scared and just think about eternal damnation and how unpleasant that would be.
Will Oldham
#47. He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
French philosopher and writer.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#48. People believe in life after death because they are afraid of dying... But I do not believe in life after death BECAUSE I am afraid of dying.
Hiroshi Yamamoto
#49. Death chased you Natalie. You have lived your life surrounded by it. You seek it. You creep around in dark places searching for it but you are afraid of it aren't you?
Nicole T. Smith
#50. A nigger that ain't afraid to die is the worse kind of nigger for the white man. He can't hold that power over you. That's what I learned when I killed that cat. I got the power of death too.
August Wilson
#51. From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.
Drew Barrymore
#52. It's natural to fear death, as a conscious, thinking being - it's the literal end of you. I'm not even afraid of death itself. It's more of a profound... not wanting to leave the party
EXO Books
#53. It was easier to blame myself than to say that it was an accident that I had no control over. Losing control is one of the scariest things. That's why people are afraid of the dark. Or death. They're afraid of not being in control.
Chelsea M. Cameron
#54. Most of us were not afraid of death, only of the act of dying; and there were times when we overcame even this fear. At such moments we were free-men without shadows, dismissed from the ranks of the mortal; it was the most complete experience of freedom that can be granted a man.
Arthur Koestler
#55. Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?"
"I guess it depends on how you die.
Haruki Murakami
#56. Because you are afraid that only the sight of your daughter's pain can bring you sadness over Janie's death.
Sarah M. Cradit
#57. I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?
Debra Winger
#58. I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating. Every time I see something beautiful, I not only want to return to it, but it makes me want to see other beautiful things. I know I'm not going to get to all the places I want to go.
Viggo Mortensen
#59. There will be blood," he said quietly, "blood and death. You should not have come."
"Since when was a woman afraid of blood?" she asked. "The problem is not only Sean's. It is mine also. If there is to be blood, I will share in the letting or the losing of it.
Louis L'Amour
#60. I sat up in the strange bed fearing it had been a dream, afraid I would never see her again. Not because I wanted anything from her, only her presence. The disappearance of the presence of beauty is the most despairing of events on this time-wheel of ours that rolls onward towards death.
Roman Payne
#62. If I could have found what I needed at thirteen, I would not have lost so much of my life chasing vindication or death. Give some child, some thirteen-year old, the hope of the remade life. Tell the truth. Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you there is magic in it.
Dorothy Allison
#63. If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.
Kurt Cobain
#64. There's and entire world outside these bleak pages, one full of SUNRISES and KITTY-CATS and late-night BURRITO RUNS and the horrible, creaking amble of us all towards DEATH. It is to that world that I am afraid I must release you to now.
David Malki
#65. What is death? Either a transition or an end. I am not afraid of coming to an end, this being the same as never having begun, nor of transition, for I shall never be in confinement quite so cramped anywhere else as I am here.
Seneca.
#66. If we let go of things, our life is going to change.
And the reality is that we are actually more afraid of change than we are of death.
Caroline Myss
#67. To me, man means awareness of death. I am not saying become afraid of death; that is not awareness. Just be aware of the fact that death is coming nearer and nearer and you have to be prepared for it ...
Rajneesh
#69. A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.
Rajneesh
#70. I am not afraid of death threats, but I am appalled that so many people are capable of so much wrong spelling and fractured grammar!
Miriam
#71. I can just barely tell when you're afraid because that is the only emotion I have been able to recognize.
S.K.N. Hammerstone
#72. Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?
Saul Williams
#73. People are reluctant to talk about old age and death because they are afraid of emotion, and they willingly avoid the things they feel most emotional about, though these are the very things they most need to talk about.
Paul Tournier
#74. I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
Tom Waits
#75. Instead of being afraid of death, we should try to awake to life; and the only death we should escape from is to forget the presence of God into us.
Laozi
#76. For me, sleeping is a waste of time. I'm afraid to sleep. It's a form of death.
Edith Piaf
#77. Then you are no longer afraid of death, Your Majesty?" the lady asked, awed at the queen's adventures. "No, I am no longer afraid of life.
Constance Jagodzinski
#78. Afraid of death? Not at all. Be a great relief. Then I wouldn't have to talk to you.
Katharine Hepburn
#79. People who are afraid of death are usually afraid of life.
Anon.
Douglas Gellatly
#80. If any reader has lost a loved one or is afraid of death, modern physics says: 'Be comforted, you and they shall live again.'
Frank Tipler
#81. She had been born with a different name, to a woman with laughing eyes and warmly whispered words of love who'd died degraded and afraid on a misty Irish morning.
C.S. Harris
#82. People speak of a will to live. They rarely speak of a will to die. Because people are afraid of death. Death is dark and unknown and frightening. But not for me. It is not the end.
Garth Stein
#83. Letting go is the hardest thing. Everybody is so afraid. They're so afraid of eternity. They're so afraid of life. They're so afraid of what's on the other side of death. There is nothing but light. God is everywhere.
Frederick Lenz
#84. Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death.
Mark Twain
#85. I don't understand how I can always want to sleep, hate waking up, and yet be afraid of death.
Mike Heil
#86. Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?
Marcus Aurelius
#87. OSWALD: For I'm not so afraid of death--though I should like to live as long as I can.
MRS. ALVING: Yes, yes, Oswald, you must!
OSWALD: But this is so unutterably loathsome.
Henrik Ibsen
#88. I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures.
Thomas Browne
#89. They were like two poor little leaves in a storm which bore death and annihilation not only to the heads of individuals, but to whole towns and entire tribes. What hand could snatch it and save two small, defenseless children?
Henryk Sienkiewicz
#90. Meditation is not for everybody. When you meditate you become conscious. Most people don't want to be too conscious because they are afraid of awareness, of death, and of being happy.
Frederick Lenz
#91. Don't you be afraid, sweetheart. Death is just a part of life, something we're all destined to do.
Sally Field
#92. Why do you want so much this new beginning? Do you think the new beginning will postpone the end? Are you afraid of the end? Are you afraid of death Michael?" (Ch.35)
Stevan V. Nikolic
#93. Aren't you afraid of death, oak? How can you speak so casually about it?'
The trees creaked their bare branches until it seemed to Geno that they must be laughing.
'Death?' they said. 'How is it death to return to earth again? Our seed can grow from us. We shall return.
Felix Salten
#94. I do not think we were afraid of death; life had become such an infinitely boring alternation between a period of stimulation which failed to stimulate and of depression which hardly even depressed.
Aleister Crowley
#95. I'm afraid of death ... Yes, but that doesn't stop death coming ...
Agatha Christie
#96. When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. That's why we'll win.
Spartacus
#97. It ain't easy to do nothing, now that society is telling everyone that their body is fundamentally flawed and about to self-destruct. People are afraid they're on the verge of death all the time
Samuel Shem
#98. I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day.
Osamu Dazai
#99. They say you never know who's the real hero and who's the real coward until you're looking death in the face. I've always been afraid of plenty of things, but fear isn't what makes you a coward. It's how depraved your heart becomes when fear gets pumped through it.
Neal Shusterman
#100. One can't live without fear, it's a question of what is your attitude towards fear? I'm afraid of a sordid death. I'm afraid that I will die in an ugly or squalid way, and cancer can be very vigorous in that respect.
Christopher Hitchens
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