Top 37 Quotes About Fearing Death
#1. That was the treachery of suffering. It took you to the point from which you thought death must follow, then let you know it could hold you there indefinitely. That was when you stopped fearing death and started wanting it, praying for it, begging for it.
Glen Duncan
#2. Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.
Bertrand Russell
#3. No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of a man fearing death.
Dave Eggers
#4. To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength,
Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe,
And so your follies fight against yourself.
Fear, and be slain
so worse can come to fight;
And fight and die is death destroying death,
Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.
William Shakespeare
#5. But there's no end to what's been said, and I'll be a party to nothing. I was born with my mouth shut:those with their mouths open do nothing but start trouble and catch flies.
Elizabeth Bowen
#6. Potter! There are hundreds of people thundering through my pub!
J.K. Rowling
#7. My best career decision was probably not giving up when I wanted to. God as well as my family and friends were there for me during my toughest times.
Jeremy Lin
#8. 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
#9. I watch and listen, helpless to help. There is no point in saying 'This, too, shall pass.' For a time, we do not even want it to pass. We hold on to grief, fearing that its lifting will be the final betrayal.
Ahdaf Soueif
#10. I find it hilarious when I see 'not alive' fearing death
Mayank Sharma
#11. Never expect appreciation for your hard work. Just continue, it will take you to the top.
Janaki Sooriyarachchi
#12. Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
Edward Young
#13. Once upon a time there was war, and starvation, and death. Once upon a time we would kill our brothers and sisters, fearing for our own lives. Once upon a time the characters turned from us, and we wept. Now we do not war, nor do we fear, nor do we weep. We Redact.
F.D. Lee
#14. He that cuts off twenty years of life
Cuts off so many years of fearing death.
Horace
#15. the strong feeling beginning to be manifested to Wade was not the fun of matching wits and luck with his antagonists, nor a desire to accumulate money--for his recklessness disproved that--but the liberation of the gambling passion.
Zane Grey
#16. When I found out that coffins are padded, I stopped fearing death.
Dana Gould
#17. Modern war is fearing the air, the shadows, fearing the silence. Death will come and I won't even see it.
Pierce Brown
#18. She holds the brightly colored wires in her hand. "Well, that did the trick," she says, smiling.
Beth Revis
#19. Deep assignments run through all our lives; there are no coincidences.
J.G. Ballard
#20. I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death!
Julian Barnes
#21. I think that by fearing death, you are actually fearing life because it is a part of life. People are born and people die.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#22. I can't tell you just how wonderful she is. I don't want you to know. I don't want any one to know.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#23. Be absolutely assured that we will die long before our own deaths if we ever allow the fear of adulthood to kill the wonder of childhood.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#25. There is a deep contradiction in failing to enjoy life and yet fearing death when faced with it.
Yoshida Kenko
#26. I so love the smell of hatred and revenge. It's the headiest of concoctions. (Noir)
I personally feel that way toward blood. No better smell in the universe than when it's combined with the aroma of those fearing death. (Jericho)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#27. I used to be very afraid of graveyards and death and such things, but not anymore. There is just no sense of being afraid when you live so near the graves; it would be like the tongue fearing the teeth.
NoViolet Bulawayo
#28. There is a real sense of family when you're around Australians, even if you don't know them.
Margot Robbie
#29. Dance used to do that for me too: a place where there was nothing to do but be me and let everything else fall away. For a lot of the girls on the team, it was all about the performance, but for me, I think it was always about communication.
Emily Henry
#30. I think that when we wrestle with death ... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#31. One French ambassador, having witnessed the royal temper, confided, 'When I see her enraged against any person whatever, I wish myself in Calcutta, fearing her anger like death
Alison Weir
#32. What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.
Eckhart Tolle
#33. We all die. We don't have to live our lives fearing it.
Claire North
#34. I am the lover's gift; I am the wedding wreath;
I am the memory of a moment of happiness;
I am the last gift of the living to the dead;
I am a part of joy and a part of sorrow.
Kahlil Gibran
#36. In the extent and proper structure of the Union, therefore, we behold a republican remedy for the disease incident to republican government.
James Madison
#37. The tragedy of life is not death, but fearing to live, allowing parts of us to wilt and die instead of flower and rejoice.
Kilroy J. Oldster