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Quotes About Fear

The big change is the proximity to death.
~ Leonard Cohen
The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.
~ David Whyte
To not think of dying, is to not think of living.
~ Jann Arden
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
~ Henry Fielding
I'm going to die whatever you do, but I'm not afraid.
~ Unknown
The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.
~ John Bright
I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.
~ Ruth Rendell
The sense of death is most in apprehension.
~ William Shakespeare
Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.
~ Damien Hirst
I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death.
~ Lefty Gomez
Why should I be worried about death?
~ Raymond Smullyan
Better be killed than frightened to death.
~ Robert Smith Surtees
I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death.
~ Thomas Nagel
Better to flee from death than feel its grip.
~ Homer
I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect.
~ Kathe Kollwitz
Yes, I know. Death sits with his key in my lock. Not one day is taken for granted. Even nursery rhymes have put me in hock.
~ Anne Sexton
Silence is death. If you speak, you die. If you are silent, you die. So speak, and die.
~ Tahar Djaout
Do the uncomfortable. Become comfortable with these acts. Prove to yourself that your limiting beliefs die a quick death if you will simply do what you feel uncomfortable doing.
~ Darren Rowse
In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten.
~ Paul Tillich
An Englishman fears contempt more than death.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
~ John Donne
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
~ John Dryden
Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.
~ Seneca the Younger
We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.
~ Unknown