I don't have any fear of death. I do, however, have an inordinate fear of becoming dependent on other people. To me, that's the severest test, not death.
The fear of death is far greater than the death itself. But the fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all!
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!
HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.
Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death?
The thing is, the more you fear death, the more you die. So it really doesn't pay off. It's a fear of the dark. Like any experience in life, you wonder, Well, if this ever happens, how would I react? and then it happens, and only then do you know.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it.
The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain.
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know.
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.
How does he do it? Live. With the fear of death every day. I don't fear death as much as I fear the thought of living.
Timor mortis conturbat me. The fear of death disturbs me.
A man is not dependent upon his fellow creature, when he does not fear death.
I'm not suggesting that you have to overcome your fear of death. But we have to be willing to recognize at any moment, death could come.
It is not death therefore that is burdensome, but the fear of death.
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.
God is the pain of the fear of death
Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.
