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Quotes About Fear

I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.
~ Mencius
An early taste of death is not necessarily a bad thing.
~ Charles Bukowski
I have no fear of death, except I hate waiting for it.
~ Doug Stanhope
Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.
~ Immanuel Wallerstein
By the Grace of God, I am cured of the disease of egotism, and Death no longer terrifies me.
~ Guru Arjan
What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
~ Steven Wright
It was the cowards who died many times before their death.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Kill me, or you are a murderer.
~ Franz Kafka
Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Officially there are no fates worse than death. Unofficially, there is a profusion of such fates. For some people, just living with the thought that they will die is a fate worse than death itself.
~ Thomas Ligotti
The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability.
~ Seth MacFarlane
Death frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.
~ Philippe Petit
Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't.
~ Antonio Machado
Death by hanging. That, at least, I thought I would be spared.
~ Wilhelm Keitel
Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare. All your sins punished. I can offer you...an escape.
~ Davy Jones
The worst thing that can happen is death, and that's not the worst thing in the world either.
~ James Stockdale
If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.
~ Maya Lin
Failure? Scared to death of it.
~ Ryan Seacrest
The true measure of a man is how he behaves when death is close.
~ Alma Katsu
For me, sleeping is a waste of time. I'm afraid to sleep. It's a form of death.
~ Edith Piaf
But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?
~ Franz Kafka
Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.
~ Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
I shot a wild elephant in Africa thirty yards from me, and it didn't hit the ground until it was right at my feet. I wasn't a bit scared. But a four foot putt scares me to death.
~ Sam Snead
Dying is a wild night and a new road.
~ Emily Dickinson