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Quotes About Death

No need to act, i let my fear show "He killed himself," i whispered. Eve raised an eyebrow. "Fourteen times?" "He had bad aim.
~ Maria V. Snyder
To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.
~ Francis Quarles
Death is the number two fear that people have and public speaking is the first!
~ Sidney Sheldon
Laughter allows us to get past the fear of death.
~ Deepak Chopra
Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.
~ Nicolas Roeg
Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
~ William Cowper
My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.
~ Andrew Cuomo
No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
~ Anne Carson
What shall he fear that does not fear death.
~ Friedrich Schiller
The fear of death comes from limited awareness.
~ Deepak Chopra
Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.
~ Seneca the Younger
Do not fear for me, for I was born only once and i shall die only once.
~ Barbara Wood
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.
~ Unknown
I don't write out of fear. I write out of a strong urge to meet death on its own eternal terms, because the fact is that if you write as little as a page of prose-even bad prose-that is eternal.
~ Anthony Burgess
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
Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.
~ Francois Fenelon
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
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
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
If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness as much as hatred and death.
~ Elie Wiesel
Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?
~ Epictetus