Should We Fear Death Philosophy Quotes

#1. Accepting that a person will die and shucking off any aversion to this blunt thought awakens the mind to realize what is possible in a human life.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#2. I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?

Langston Hughes

#3. Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic.

Wyclef Jean

#4. I'm not sure how far the decent is, because I'm still falling. But I've hit rock-bottom about half a dozen times in my life,

Zack Love

#5. When we overcome the fear of death, we become deathless, endless, and infinite.

Debasish Mridha

#6. There's no need to fear the oblivion after we're gone if we never cared about the oblivion that came before we were born. Cheer up. Death obsessing is for boozy existentialists and bad poets.

Tom Jokinen

#7. I don't know which I should fear more ... death or life. I wish I could be done with fear.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#8. For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.

William Penn

#9. You can dig through public records and other documents to find out if a certain person had an Aryan grandmother, but there's no way to tell if that grandmother's Eocene ancestor was a sinanthropus or a pithecanthropus.

Stanislaw Lem

#10. Furthermore, as the body suffers the horrors of disease and the pangs of pain, so we see the mind stabbed with anguish, grief and fear. What more natural than that it should likewise have a share in death?

Titus Lucretius Carus

#11. Nobody's perfect. Even the most successful people make serious mistakes.

Travis Bradberry

#12. Fear of death is merely the projection into the future of a fear which dates back to our first moment of life.

Emil M. Cioran

#13. Fear of death, wonder at the causes of chance events or unintelligible happenings, hope for divine aid and gratitude for good fortune, cooperated to generate religious belief.

Will Durant

#14. It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous
even death is terrible only if we fear it.

Epictetus

#15. Remember the waterfront shack with the sign FRESH FISH SOLD HERE. Of course it's fresh, we're on the ocean. Of course it's for sale, we're not giving it away. Of course it's here, otherwise the sign would be someplace else. The final sign: FISH.

Peggy Noonan

#16. [T]hose who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

Plato

#17. Don't give me truth, just give me gossip
And skeletons from people's closets,
I wanna be normal
And millions buy it,
I am blinded by The SUN.

Benjamin Zephaniah

#18. The fear of death never left me; I couldn't get used to the thought; I would still sometimes shake and weep with terror. By contrast, the fact of existence here and now sometimes took on a glorious splendour.

Simone De Beauvoir

#19. Life... is a paradise to what we fear of death.

William Shakespeare

#20. I don't fear death but I fear the process of dying.

Debasish Mridha

#21. We do not fear death.
We fear not having lived enough.

Manoj Vaz

#22. The amount of God's love is unlimited, but we only receive as much as we use.

Corrie Ten Boom

#23. A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

George Bernard Shaw