Quotes About Fear

I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.

Death is not fearful. What's fearful is giving up.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.

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.

There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.

Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.

Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.

I am inclined to believe that one who is a coward will be born after death as an insect or a worm, that there is no salvation for a coward even after millions of years of penance.

If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.

We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner to the soundtrack of our own impending death.

Ants and savages put strangers to death.

Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.

Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!

Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer it.

Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.

Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.

It doesn't matter if you have a desperate heart when you have to sing about joy; it doesn't matter if you're scared to death when the lights go on.

I was definitely high-fiving death a couple of times.

I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.

I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.

Some guy once told me that skydiving is like cutting your throat and seeing if you can get to the doctor before you bleed to death.