Top 100 Quotes About Fear Of Death: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Fear Of Death

#1. I that in heill wes and gladnes Am trublit now with gret seiknes And feblit with infermite: Timor Mortis conturbat me.* * Fear of Death troubles me.

William Dunbar

#2. If you understand, if you see, if you can feel and experience that you are not separate from existence, that you are one with it, all fear of death disappears because there is nobody to die inside you. In the first place there is nobody at all, existence lives through you.

Rajneesh

#3. For me, Satan and a literal hell are fables born of Christianity's desire to control humanity by increasing its fear of death.

Christopher Pike

#4. (life science) definitions. The question that runs through these disputatio is the following: What if "horror" has less to do with a fear of death, and more to do with the dread of life?

Eugene Thacker

#5. Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry..about the country, the suburbs and the seaside ... then there come's love ... and increasingly; the fear of death.

John Betjeman

#6. The fear of death which is imprinted in men is at the same time a great expedient Heaven employs to hinder them from many misdeeds: many things are left undone for fear of imperiling one's life or health.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#7. Don't let anyone tell you that age purchases your freedom from fear of death.

James Lee Burke

#8. I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience.

Katy Butler

#9. Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

Stanislav Grof

#10. Seeing a woman cough today made me sense a vague fear of death

Brandon Scott Gorrell

#11. More people have a fear of speaking than a fear of death. So at a funeral, most people would want to be the person in the coffin rather than the person delivering the eulogy!

Geoffrey Rush

#12. The way we regard death is critical to the way we experience life. When your fear of death changes, the way you live your life changes.

Ram Dass

#13. Come to believe that the fear of death is always greatest in those who feel that they have not lived their life fully. A good working formula is: the more unlived life, or unrealized potential, the greater one's death anxiety.

Irvin D. Yalom

#14. fear of death is the amber of happiness

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#15. I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

A. N. Wilson

#16. The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.

Robert Anton Wilson

#17. I had come to believe that the fear of death is always greatest in those who feel that they have not lived their life fully. A good working formula is: the more unlived life, or unrealized potential, the greater one's death anxiety. My

Irvin D. Yalom

#18. The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Albert Einstein

#19. The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

Deepak Chopra

#20. When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life almost as deep-seated as the fear of death

Tom Robbins

#21. Fundamentally, what all forms of positive thinking about collapse come down to is our own fear of death.

Carolyn Baker

#22. There is a deep-seated reason why intelligent, sensible people suddenly recoil from objective evidence when the topic turns to evolution. I think the fear of death has a lot to do with it.

Bill Nye

#23. My biggest fear of death is to come back reincarnated

Tupac Shakur

#24. In horror of death, I took to the mountains - again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of death, capturing the fortress of the deathless unending nature of mind. Now all fear of death is over and done.

Milarepa

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

Mark Twain

#26. There is no greater terror than the fear of death. But, as a Christian, you are learning to die daily. Thus, when the actual time comes for your spirit to leave your body, you will have already gained the victory over its sting.

Alicia A. Willis

#27. DMS is energetic and enterprising to a degree that from time to time leaves certain persons (e.g. those burdened with a petty fear of death or torture) uneasy (see my prior speculation as to possibility DMS may have been born with a redundant Y chromosome).

Neal Stephenson

#28. Thus not to see the unity of self and other is the fear of life, and not to see the unity of being and nonbeing is the fear of death.

Alan W. Watts

#29. Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will to live. And the greater the fear of death, the greater the struggle to keep on living.

Mo Yan

#30. The fear of death is far greater than the death itself. But the fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all!

The Undertaker

#31. The day, man will find that he never really dies; that his Soul persists beyond death; he will have no more fear of death.

Swami Vivekananda

#32. He'd lost all fear of Death's embrace,
The last embrace a man will know.

Christopher Paolini

#33. Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death.

William Gurnall

#34. The fear of death can grow so large we let it keep us from living

Kiersten White

#35. I have no fear of death, except I hate waiting for it.

Doug Stanhope

#36. I have no fear of death. We all die. I consider my remaining days to be like money in the bank. When it is all gone, I will be repossessed.

Roger Ebert

#37. I travel because life is short, and I will not wait for fear of death or sanctuary to become a prison of my own making.

Carew Papritz

#38. To go back is nothing but death; to go forward is fear of death, and life everlasting beyond it. I will yet go forward.

John Bunyan

#39. They had no fear of death, and whoever has no fear of death - the centurion had often meditated on this here in the East - whoever has no fear of death is immortal.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#40. If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more prevalent than the fear of one another.

R.D. Laing

#41. Our culture's zeal for longevity reveals our incredible collective fear of death.

Ram Dass

#42. Close your eyes and let the mind expand. Let no fear of death or darkness arrest its course. Allow the mind to merge with Mind. Let it flow out upon the great curve of consciousness. Let it soar on the wings of the great bird of duration, up to the very Circle of Eternity.

Hermes Trismegistus

#43. We fear it, yet most of us fear more than anything that it may take someone other than ourselves. For the greatest fear of death is always that it will pass us by. And leave us there alone. People

Fredrik Backman

#44. The fear of death is why we build cathedrals, have children, declare war, and watch cat videos online at three a.m.

Caitlin Doughty

#45. One finds life through conquering the fear of death within one's mind. Empty the mind of all forms of attachment, make a go-for-broke charge and conquer the opponent with one decisive slash.

Takenaka Shigekata

#46. The less bravely we live the more stifling becomes our fear of death.

Glenn Haybittle

#47. Love is a holy fuel. It fires the affections, steels the courage, and carries a Christian above the love of life, and the fear of death.

Thomas Watson

#48. I have never been able to be so allured by the prospect of advantages or so terrified by misfortunes, swayed by honours or fettered by affection, nay not even so smitten by the fear of death, as to enter upon marriage.

Elizabeth I

#49. From both my personal and my professional experience, I had come to believe that the fear of death is always greatest in those who feel that they have not lived their life fully.

Irvin D. Yalom

#50. The coward's fear of death stems in large part from his incapacity to love anything but his own body. The inability to participate in others' lives stands in the way of his developing any inner resources sufficient to overcome the terror of death. - J. Glenn Gary, The Warriors

Sebastian Junger

#51. I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in the years or months before death.

Terry Pratchett

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

Albert Einstein

#53. You know that feeling when you tip your chair too far and begin to fall backward? The sensation was something like that, mixed with self recrimination and the fear of death.

Patrick Rothfuss

#54. The desire of death will not always lead you to death but the fear of death will.

Santosh Kalwar

#55. Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.

Stanislav Grof

#56. Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected.

Zeena Schreck

#57. The fear of death is for all of us everywhere, but for the great intelligence of the opium eater it is beautifully narrowed into the crux of drugs.

John Cheever

#58. Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

Mahatma Gandhi

#59. Dr. Lipsenthal is a profound explorer of our inner and outer worlds. Enjoy Every Sandwich will help you heal your fear of death and embrace the true joy of life's extraordinary journey.

Edgar Mitchell

#60. Fear of death is worse than death itself...

Gosho Aoyama

#61. I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.

Socrates

#62. How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

George MacDonald

#63. Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.

Ivan Turgenev

#64. The idea here is that we are less wicked than we are weak. As sarx - as mortal animals - we are playthings of the devil, who uses the fear of death to push and pull our survival instincts (our fleshly, sarx-driven passions) to keep us as "slaves to sin.

Richard Beck

#65. When I turned 50, I realized I was now going to start counting backwards in terms of the years I had left. Then I turned 60, and I just stopped counting. I don't have a fear of death, but I have an awareness that there's a time limit.

Chris Crutcher

#66. Timor mortis conturbat me. The fear of death disturbs me.

William Dunbar

#67. He wanted to talk about the strange passion that catches hold of a man by the scruff of his neck and transports him to a realm beyond the fear of death.

Yukio Mishima

#68. The smell of baking bread wafts up to my cell and reminds me of the days I walked freely in the cafes. This tears me apart more than my fear of death or the solitude in which I now find myself.

Paulo Coelho

#69. Fear of death and the desire to live on, somehow, if only through our children. Or our grandchildren. Quixotic quest for immortality. It's sad and heroic and doomed - all at the same time.

Will Ferguson

#70. People living deeply have no fear of death.

Anais Nin

#71. Neither exhortations to virtue nor the argument of approaching death should divert us from literature; for in a good mind it excites the love of virtue, and dissipates, or at least diminishes, the fear of death.

Francesco Petrarca

#72. The fear of death was a powerful aphrodisiac.

Lisa See

#73. My doctor told me that I drastically needed to lose weight. Fear of death and dying motivated meto make many lifestyle changes that led me to eventually shed over 100 pounds.

Kelly Price

#74. God is the pain of the fear of death

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#75. In strength, the fear of enemies, In beauty, the fear of old age, In knowledge, the fear of defeat, In virtue, the fear of scandal, In the body, the fear of death. In this life all is fraught with fear: Renunciation alone is fearless. (In Search of God and

Swami Vivekananda

#76. The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

Salvador Dali

#77. Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?

Epictetus

#78. My day-to-day local issues are rooted in an underlying fear of death.

Alex Karpovsky

#79. Those who have known death from inside lose all fear of death.

Rajneesh

#80. The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.

William Hazlitt

#81. a parallel world than a religious kind of afterlife. In fact, he was especially critical of religious leaders, whom Twain felt had been using the fear of death and threats of hell to control the minds of their followers. Over the Ouija board, Twain told Hutchings:

Richard Bullivant

#82. I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another kind of reality.

Raymond Moody

#83. For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.' And

Dervla Murphy

#84. A German infantryman wrote in his diary, 'Courage has nothing to do with it. The fear of death surpasses all other feelings and terrible compulsion alone drives the soldier forward.'22

James Wyllie

#85. He [The Improved Man] will enjoy not only the sunshine of life, but will bear with fortitude the darkest days. He will have no fear of death. About the grave, there will be no terrors, and his life will end as serenely as the sun rises.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#86. Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.

Jack Kevorkian

#87. There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death ... Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

Francis Bacon

#88. The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Joseph Addison

#89. When we face our fear of death and slow down our busy lives, we come to realize our relationships are precious, a part of life's foundation. Knowing this fact helps us to understand that death's true purpose is to teach us how to live.

Molly Friedenfeld

#90. Laughter allows us to get past the fear of death.

Deepak Chopra

#91. Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.

Emil Cioran

#92. [On the ancient Venus figurines:] If the central religious figure was a woman giving birth and not, as in our time, a man dying on a cross, it would not be unreasonable to infer that life and the love of life - rather than death and the fear of death - were dominant in society as well as art.

Riane Eisler

#93. Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the thing itself: his will to live had always been so much stronger than his fear of death.

J.K. Rowling

#94. Even the fear of death is barely enough to counter this compulsion of ours.

Hugh Howey

#95. 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.

Tecumseh