Best 129 quotes in «fear of death quotes» category

The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,” he said. “The inexhaustibility.” “I understand.” “The whole huge nameless thing.” “Yes, absolutely.” “The massive darkness.” “Certainly, certainly.” “The whole terrible endless hugeness.” “I know exactly what you mean.

The white-hot singularity at the core of the Machine is – ultimately - a fear of death. It's the inevitability of a journey's end and the threat of a question nobody can honestly answer: what does it mean to make the most of a life? How can you tell that you've spent your time well? There is no metric, no answer key at the back of the book. It's a question that I think everyone had to answer for themselves, and hold tight onto that answer with both hands.

The world slides, the world goes, and death makes equal the rich and the poor

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils.

Tis only when faced with our own mortality that we truly realize what it means to be alive,

When we face our fear of death and slow down our busy lives, we come to realize our relationships are precious, a part of life’s foundation. Knowing this fact helps us to understand that death’s true purpose is to teach us how to live.

We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and create the afterlife.

When I was younger, I would cling to life because life was at the top of the turning wheel. But like the song of my gypsy-girl, the great wheel turns over and lands on a minor key. It is then that you come of age and life means nothing to you. To live, to die, to overdose, to fall in a coma in the street... it is all the same. It is only in the peach innocence of youth that life is at its crest on top of the wheel. And there being only life, the young cling to it, they fear death... And they should! ...For they are in life.

When the fight ends you can afford to relax. That’s the worst part. Winner or loser you have again eyes to see around you. Blood, butchered bodies, bodies pierced by arrows. You stir inside, your heart tightens, the feeling of loss wells up. The sense of smell is the next thing to revive, adding a new dimension of pain. I closed the eyes of the last cadet, blue eyes, unseeing, his body, so small, almost a child, the youngest cadets were all gone, their faces surprised in death. Cold lips never able again to kiss a girl. It’s then that the emptiness swallows you and you mourn inside. Damn you, Scharon. No! Damn you, Travellers.

We die a day at a time

When you erode the fear of death with the knowledge that you already died [in Christ], you will find yourself moving toward a simple, bold obedience.

You can't possibly be afraid of death, really, you can only be afraid of life.

As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.

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

Don't let anyone tell you that age purchases your freedom from fear of death.

Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?

Conventional cancer therapy is so toxic and dehumanizing that I fear it far more than I fear death from cancer.

Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves from the fear of man.

Every fear is fear of death.

Fear of death is worse than death itself.

Entertainment alleviates the fear of life, but art vanquishes the fear of death

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?

He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "Where is it? What death?" There was no fear because there was no death. In place of death there was light.

Firstly, do not fear hardship, and secondly, do not fear death.

I adore life but I dont fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.

He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life.

How do you scare some sense into a child who doesn’t fear death?

He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.

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

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

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!

I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.

I don't fear death, but I sure don't like those three-footers for par.

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.

I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.

I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep.

I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.

If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?

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.

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

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

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.

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.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.

It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death.

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.

Laughter allows us to get past the fear of death.

The best way to live above all fear of death is to die every morning before you leave your bedroom.

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