Fear Of Death Quotes - Page 14

• Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears.

  Nhat Hanh

  Healing, Water, Enlightenment

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2007). “Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.138, Penguin

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• We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

  Ann Landers

  Death, Dying, Needs

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• Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the thing itself: his will to live had always been so much stronger than his fear of death.

  J. K. Rowling

  Hurt, Stronger, Happens

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• Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Motor Racing, Nascar Racing, Drug

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• Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

  Stanislav Grof

  Spiritual, Two, Dying

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• But what is it that makes a person want to stay here on this earth anyway, and go on suffering the most awful pain just for the sake of getting to stay? I used to think it was because people fear death. But now I think it is because people can't bear saying goodbye.

  Cynthia Rylant

  Goodbye, Pain, Thinking

  Karen Hesse, Cynthia Rylant, Cynthia Lord, Ann M. Martin (2013). “Scholastic Newbery Collection”, p.71, Scholastic Inc.

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• If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more prevalent than the fear of one another.

  R. D. Laing

  Spiritual, Loneliness, Anxiety

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• Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.

  H. L. Mencken

  Fear, Men, Atheism

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.54, Knopf

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• I don't think fear necessarily is a core human emotion, but I do think fear of death is something that is at the core of every person's existence.

  Zachary Cole Smith

  Thinking, Emotion, Existence

  "Interview: DIIV On Their Sophomore Album, 'Is The Is Are'". Interview with Rose Riddell, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

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• Fear of death only comes through the brittleness of the ego.

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  Ram Dass

  Ego

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• No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.

  Anne Carson

  Tunnels, Light, Needs

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I have absolutely no fear of death. Why would I? There's nothing to fear-only joy to experience.

  Don Piper

  Joy, No Fear

  Don Piper, Cecil Murphey (2006). “90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life”, p.196, Revell

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• Set honor in one eye and death in th' other, and I will look on both indifferently. I love then name of honor more than I fear death.

  Julius Caesar

  Eye, Names, Honor

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• 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.

  Nick Tosches

  Dark, Wonder

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Fear of death is understandable, being that we are all going to die, but fear of life and suffering is more of an irrational fear because it's something that can be avoided. The torturous part is that suffering can be avoided if you have good luck. That's somewhat out of our hands, but is it? I don't know. "Is bad luck self-harm by another name?"

  Steve Toltz

  Good Luck, Suffering, Bad Luck

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Laughter allows us to get past the fear of death.

  Deepak Chopra

  Laughter, Past, Humour

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• He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.

  Cato the Elder

  Lost, Covetousness

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• The samurais were very interested in Zen because they admired the tremendous precision that the Zen Masters had, their lack of fear and pain and their absolute lack of fear of death.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Health, Buddhism

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• Never fear Death for you will feel aroused by his sleep. Never cheat death or he will slap you with a sentence of misery for the defeat.

  Suzy Kassem

  Sleep, Misery, Defeat

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• Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Men, Evil, Sorrow

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• Do it now and avoid the June rush! Fear death by water!

  Diane Duane

  June, Water

  Diane Duane (2003). “Deep Wizardry”, p.80, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry, about the country, the suburbs and the seaside. Then there comes love... and increasingly; the fear of death.

  John Betjeman

  Country, Topography, Chiefs

  Radio Talk on BBC Third Programme, 1949.

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• Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Love, Together, Stronger

  Ivan Turgenev (2013). “Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)”, p.2630, Delphi Classics

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• The idea of enemies is awful it makes one stop remembering eternity and the fear of death. That is what enemies are. Possessions are the same as enemies only less so, they too make one
  forget eternity and the fear of death.

  Gertrude Stein

  Ideas, Enemy, Awful

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.42, Random House

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• I don't fear death; I fear remaining silent in the face of injustice. I am young and I want to live. But I say to those that would eliminate my voice: I am ready, wherever and whenever you might strike. You can cut down the flower, but nothing can stop the coming of the spring.

  Malalai Joya

  Spring, Flower, Cutting

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