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Quotes About Life

Death is not the enemy; living in constant fear of it is.
~ Norman Cousins
Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.
~ Epicurus
There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured.
~ Epicurus
Uncommon extension of the fear of death.
~ Ambrose Bierce
To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.
~ Francis Quarles
Laughter allows us to get past the fear of death.
~ Deepak Chopra
Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
~ William Cowper
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
~ David Letterman
Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.
~ Paul Tsongas
Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.
~ Robert Jordan
What shall he fear that does not fear death.
~ Friedrich Schiller
The fear of death comes from limited awareness.
~ Deepak Chopra
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
~ Lucretius
Do not fear for me, for I was born only once and i shall die only once.
~ Barbara Wood
I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.
~ Stephen King, The Dark Tower
I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.
~ Rosie Thomas, Iris & Ruby
There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.
~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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.
~ Huston Smith
Just FYI, in your case, I think it's okay to fear the reaper.
~ Rachel Vincent
Thy best of rest is sleep, And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st Thy death, which is no more.
~ William Shakespeare
Being scared is part of being alive. Accept it. Walk through it.
~ Robin Sharma
The old watch the young with anguish, pain, fear. Above all what each has learned is what things cost, what has to be paid.
~ Doris Lessing
Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died.
~ Thomas Hood
We might remember ... not to fear death; it is the only way to be cleansed.
~ Robinson Jeffers