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
#4. Why are you afraid of death?
Because you don't understand the perfect love of Jesus.
Because perfect love casts out
fear.
Ivor Myers
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. Do you have any coffee?' ... 'It stunts my growth, and I'm afraid of death.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?"
"I guess it depends on how you die.
Haruki Murakami
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. Afraid of death? Not at all. Be a great relief. Then I wouldn't have to talk to you.
Katharine Hepburn
#31. People who are afraid of death are usually afraid of life.
Anon.
Douglas Gellatly
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. I don't understand how I can always want to sleep, hate waking up, and yet be afraid of death.
Mike Heil
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures.
Thomas Browne
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. I'm afraid of death ... Yes, but that doesn't stop death coming ...
Agatha Christie
#43. The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#44. We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.
Naomi Watts
#46. As a child I was afraid of death. I was not afraid to die, but every time I thought of death I shuddered.
Elie Wiesel
#47. For by nature human beings are afraid of death and of the dissolution of the body. But this is most amazing, that one who has put on the faith of the cross scorns even things according to nature, and is not afraid of death because of Christ.
Athanasius Of Alexandria
#48. Dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life.
Natalie Babbitt
#49. I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen
#50. I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.
Derek Jarman
#51. I am not afraid of death. What I am afraid of is that I will meet the Saviour and He will say, 'You could have done better'
Spencer W. Kimball
#52. Dying really isn't so bad after you've done it once. And I have. I'm not afraid of death anymore. I'm afraid of everything else.
Katja Millay
#53. Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?
John Updike
#54. At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death.
Alex Lifeson
#56. I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.
Stephen Rea
#58. I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
Jean Giraudoux
#59. You can't possibly be afraid of death, really, you can only be afraid of life.
Carl R. Rogers
#61. I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.
Rosie Thomas
#62. The point where you become free not to kill, not to exploit, not to destroy, not to compete, because you are no longer afraid of death or the devil or poverty or failure. If you discover this nakedness, you'd better keep it private. People don't like it.
Thomas Merton
#63. It's not a morbid thing, but I think I've never been afraid of death, which is maybe why I love writing about it.
Aoife O'Donovan
#64. He who loveth God with all his heart feareth not death, nor punishment, nor judgment, nor hell, because perfect love giveth sure access to God. But he who still delighteth in sin, no marvel if he is afraid of death and judgment.
Thomas A Kempis
#65. Thou hast become dark and cannot hear me. When I die shall I not be like Enkidu? Sorrow enters my heart. I am afraid of death.
Anonymous
#66. The soul is not part of the incarnation. It comes into the incarnation. And the soul is not afraid of death because it has done it so many times.
Ram Dass
#67. I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next.
Haruki Murakami
#69. I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?
Patrick Macnee
#70. To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.
Francis Quarles
#71. Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation. It dies with the body, which is why we are so afraid of death. Death scares the hell out of who you think you are, especially if you think you are this body.
Ram Dass
#72. Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.
Natalie Babbitt
#73. He wasn't afraid of death, but he was afraid of dying before he accomplished his purposes.
Brent Weeks
#74. The recruit who reports for active duty at the beginning of the war can in some instances be afraid of death, but more often he is 'afraid of being afraid'; that is, he is filled with anguish before himself.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#75. Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht
#76. I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.
Isabelle Eberhardt
#77. But will somebody please tell me what's a person to do when they're too afraid of life to live and too afraid of death to die?
Bette Greene
#78. If you're afraid of death, I would say, either fight for your life or come to grips with the fact you may not make it. And in doing that there shouldn't be bitterness. There should be a celebration. There should be an understanding of how lucky you are. That's how I feel.
Robby Benson
#79. Show no fear! I am afraid of many things, but I cannot and will not be afraid of death!
Natalie Erin
#80. I'm not afraid of death ... I'm afraid of life without you.
Yvonne Woon
#82. It is important that our relationship with farm animals is reciprocal. We owe animals a decent life and a painless death. I have observed that the people who are completely out of touch with nature are the most afraid of death ...
Temple Grandin
#83. To the degree you have experienced intimacy with God, you won't be afraid of death because you're experiencing the first tastes and promises of heaven in this world.
Richard Rohr
#84. The Buddha said, 'Gripped by fear, men go to the sacred mountains and sacred groves, sacred trees and shrines.' I am not afraid of death, my lady. I need no god to comfort me in my fear.
Conn Iggulden
#85. Old Age, a second child, by nature curst
With more and greater evils than the first,
Weak, sickly, full of pains: in ev'ry breath
Railing at life, and yet afraid of death.
Charles Churchill
#86. Unless you know yourself as eternal beings, part of the whole, you will remain afraid of death.
Rajneesh
#87. The concept of harmony being preserved by the universe itself was obviously to his taste: he was getting old and was afraid of death.
Vadim Babenko
#88. I'm not afraid of death, I just wonder if I will be able to kiss your lips from there!
Elefteriades
#89. Aye, but the hand that had murdered had once pressed the mother's breast into the thirsting mouth, had stolen into the father's hand when they went out into the dark. Aye, but the murderer afraid of death had once been a child afraid of the night.
Alan Paton
#90. If the idea of death during this period had, as we have seen, cast a gloom over love, the memory of love had for a long time now helped me not to be afraid of death. For I understood that dying was not something new but quite the reverse, that since my childhood I had already died a number of times.
Marcel Proust
#92. It is foolish to be afraid of death. Just think. No more repaired tires on the body vehicle, no more patchwork living.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#93. The only thing that I am completely certain of after this experience is that I am no longer afraid of death.
Michael Blain
#94. Strange. Half my years afraid of life. The other half, afraid of death. Always some kind of afraid.
Ray Bradbury
#95. I'm not afraid of death. Death's afraid of me.
Lee Child
#96. There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death.
Pliny The Younger
#97. What misery to be afraid of death.
What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.
Mary Oliver
#98. But everybody is afraid of death; that too is contagious. Your parents are afraid of death, your neighbors are afraid of death. Small children start getting infected by this constant fear all around. Everybody is afraid of death. People don't even want to talk about death.
Rajneesh
#99. Do not be afraid of death. Be afraid of the half-lived life!
Laird Hamilton
#100. Train yourself. That is your only chance of survival. Train yourself not to be afraid of death and you will never lose hope.
Jessie Jasen
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