Fear Of Death Quotes - Page 10

• The Fear of Death often proves Mortal.

  Joseph Addison

  Death, Prove, Mortals

  Joseph Addison (1721). “Remarks on several parts of Italy , &c in the years 1701, 1702, 1703. The Tatler. By Isaac Bickerstaffe, esq. The Spectator, no.1-89”, p.458

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• All fears are one fear. Just the fear of death. And we accept it, then we are at peace.

  David Mamet

  Accepting

  David Mamet (2016). “Mamet Plays: 3: Glengarry Glen Ross; Prairie du Chien; The Shawl; Speed-the-Plow”, p.169, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• And I, who timidly hate life, fear death with fascination. I fear this nothingness that could be something else, and I fear it as nothing and as something else simultaneously, as if gross horror and non-existence could coincide there, as if my coffin could entrap the eternal breathing of a bodily soul, as if immortality could be tormented by confinement. The idea of hell, which only a satanic soul could have invented seems to me to have derived from this sort of confusion - a mixture of two different fears that contradict and contaminate each other.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Hate, Breathing, Ideas

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, number 168, 1982.

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• We might remember ... not to fear death; it is the only way to be cleansed.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Death, Might, Way

  Robinson Jeffers, Albert Gelpi (2003). “The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers”, p.172, Stanford University Press

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• It is the fear of death - 24/7 in every shade of hospital white and doomsday black--that sells the pharmaceutical, political, financial, film, and food product promising to make good the wish to live forever.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Death, White, Forever

  "The Death of American Exceptionalism - and of Me" by Lewis Lapham, www.motherjones.com. September 24, 2013.

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• I think it's just fear of death. I can't bear to go to sleep. There's very little, you know, between an entrepreneur and a crazy person.

  Anita Roddick

  Crazy, Sleep, Thinking

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• 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

  Able, Affection, Smitten

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• the fear of death is that you are dying too soon. Nobody wants to, but at the point that you die you can pray that you are no longer the same person. I pray that when I am about to die I will not be the same person that I am now.

  Audre Lorde

  Dying, Want, Praying

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.14, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Death must simply become the discreet but dignified exit of a peaceful person from a helpful society that is not torn, not even overly upset by the idea of a biological transition without significance, without pain or suffering, and ultimately without fear.

  Philippe Aries

  Death, Pain, Ideas

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• We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beauty, Beautiful, Death

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• Walk with the dead
  For fear of death.

  Philip Larkin

  Death, Walks

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.29, Faber & Faber

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• The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.

  Plato

  Death, Real, Knowing

  Plato (2012). “The Trial and Death of Socrates: Four Dialogues”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.

  Denis Diderot

  Justice, Atheism, Virtue

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• The idea of safety had shrunk into particles - one snug moment, then the next. Meanwhile, the brain piped fugues of worry and staged mind-theaters full of tragedies and triumphs, because unfortunately, the fear of death does wonders to focus the mind, inspire creativity, and heightens the senses. Trusting one's hunches only seems gamble if one has time for seem; otherwise the brain goes on autopilot and trades the elite craft of analysis for the best rapid insights that float up from its danger files and ancient bag of tricks.

  Diane Ackerman

  Creativity, Ideas, Worry

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• We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.

  Alison Gopnik

  Mean, Heaven, Zombie

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• And if I remain in the dark about our purpose here, and the meaning of eternity, I have nevertheless arrived at an understanding of a few more modest truths: Most of us fear death. Most of us yearn to comprehend how we got here, and why-- which is to say, most of us ache to know the love of our creator. And we will no doubt feel that ache, most of us, for as long as we happen to be alive.

  Jon Krakauer

  Dark, Long, Understanding

  Jon Krakauer (2013). “Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith”, p.301, Pan Macmillan

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• You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.

  G. Gordon Liddy

  Understanding, Facts, Reason

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• I don't fear death; I welcome it with open arms and a smirk. But until that wondrous day, I will continue to savor and celebrate all those who have graduated before me.

  Nikki Sixx

  Smirk, Arms, Welcome

  Nikki Sixx (2011). “This Is Gonna Hurt (Enhanced Edition): Music, Photography and Life Through the Distorted Lens of Nikki Sixx”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• Everyone has the same kind of fears; everyone has the same big problems in the world, which is, like, fear of death and I hope horrible things dont happen to my family, but they do. And I think people laugh at them as this great release.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Thinking, People, Laughing

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• Death can be successfully put out of mind for the simple reason that it is beyond human experience. Death is either the abstract concept of nonexistence or the emotion of fear.

  Lidiya Ginzburg

  Death, Simple, Mind

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• Man does not fear death, only the suffering.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Men, Suffering, Doe

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• To have arrived at the truth means that one no longer fears death. For death and truth are similar in that they both require a great courage if one wishes to face them.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Truth, Mean, Wish

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition”, p.112, Zed Books

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• The most degrading of human passions is the fear of death. It tears away the restraints and the conventions which alone make social life possible to man; it reveals the brute in him which underlies them all. In the desperate hand-to-hand struggle for life there is no element of nobility. He who is engaged upon it throws aside honor, he throws aside self-respect, he throws aside all that would make victory worth having - he asks for nothing but bare life.

  Gertrude Bell

  Death, Struggle, Passion

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• [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

  Religious, Art, Love Life

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• Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?

  Hildegard Knef

  Guarantees That, Life And Death, Life Death

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