Quotes About Death

Fear of death is worse than death itself.

Getting old and dying alone is my worst fear.

A true believer does not fear physical death, rather he fears the death of his heart

Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.

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.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

It is not death therefore that is burdensome, but the fear of death.

Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.

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.

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man is quick at seizing advantages, and the stupid man has no fear of death.

I do not fear death. I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear.

If death causes you no pain when you're dead, it is foolish to allow the fear of it to cause you pain now.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

I dont fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.

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

Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

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.

Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.