Quotes About Not Being Afraid Of Death

#1. 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

#2. The moment you know your real being, you are afraid of nothing. Death gives freedom and power. To be free in the world, you must die to the world. Then the universe is your own, it becomes your body, an expression and a tool. The happiness of being absolutely free is beyond description.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#3. Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.

Isabel Allende

#4. I have been very fortunate to be successful in business, and I believe that it is right that people who have this type of wealth should give something back into society.

Alisher Usmanov

#5. She told her father Mr. Abram Colhard that she did not like it at all being one being living then. He never said anything. She was afraid then, she was one needing charming stories and happy telling of them and not having that thing she was always trembling.

Gertrude Stein

#6. Women were afraid of me, they were scared to death. But I always say be yourself, if you're funny then let your sense of humor go there. I mean there's no sense hiding what you feel.

Don Rickles

#7. I do not believe that a man should be restrained in his daily actions by being afraid of punishment after death or that he should do things only because in this way he will be rewarded after he dies.

Albert Einstein

#8. I bet the reason people are afraid of going bald is because it makes them think of the end of life. I mean, when your hair starts to thin, it must feel as if your life is being worn away ... as if you've taken a giant step in the direction of death, the last Big Consumption.

Haruki Murakami

#9. 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

#10. When death is certain, fear disappears. Fear is only there because of death. But when death is certain and there is no way to avoid it, what is the point of being afraid?

Osho

#11. You either get better, or you don't progress.

Lance Reddick

#12. The purpose of Holy Scripture is not ultimately to make you smart, or make you relevant, or make you rich, or get you a job, or get you married, or take all your problems away, or tell you where to live. The aim is that you might be wise enough to put your faith in Christ and be saved.

Kevin DeYoung

#13. 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

#14. If God sets your speed limit high, don't be afraid of your life-car being crashed.

Munia Khan

#15. Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience.

Thomas Browne

#16. 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

#17. I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

#18. Fears are all psychological. Being afraid of death, loss of a loved one and disfigurement are all powered by your mind, and that's very powerful stuff.

John Carpenter

#19. 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.

#20. Saving faith is not the enemy of good works, but their only possible source.

Michael S. Horton

#21. 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

#22. He was strict and hard and had perfectly clear and definite ideas about duty, where the others were concerned. For oneself one can always find circumstances that alter cases

Hjalmar Soderberg

#23. I'm not afraid of being dead. I'm just afraid of what you might have to go through to get there.

Pamela Bone

#24. 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

#25. Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the individual big and fine.

Emma Goldman

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect.

Kathe Kollwitz

#29. If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam. The world has nothing to bestow From our own selves our joys must flow, And that dear hut, our home.

Nathaniel Cotton

#30. Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?

Saul Williams

#31. 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

#32. My gut isn't wrong. Except when it has diarrhea. Then it is very, very wrong.

Sara Wolf

#33. 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

#34. I thought one only had to speak Latin through one's nose and bite off the end.

Charlotte Mary Yonge

#35. And yet I am afraid, afraid of what my words will do to me, to my refuge, yet again ... If I could speak and yet say nothing, really nothing? Then I might escape being gnawed to death.

Samuel Beckett