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Quotes About Fear

I myself become terrified of death when I am in a negative state of mind. But the thought of death ceases to bother me once I become productive.
~ Hayao Miyazaki
I am sick of death and worst of all this sickness feeds on itself, the more afraid I am the more I am afraid the more I flee the more I am afraid the more I am haunted.
~ Helene Cixous
I looked Death right in the face.
~ Travis Barker
Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear; Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.
~ Walter Savage Landor
If you live right, death is a joke to you as far as fear is concerned.
~ Will Rogers
The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death.
~ Willa Cather
Man has created death.
~ William Butler Yeats
I that in heill wes and gladnes Am trublit now with gret seiknes And feblit with infermite: Timor Mortis conturbat me.* * Fear of Death troubles me.
~ William Dunbar
Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation.
~ William Goldman
My joy is death- Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish'd this world's eternity.
~ William Shakespeare
The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from.
~ Stephen King, The Green Mile
Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst.Death isn't just an idea.
~ Mary Oliver
If she was going to die, Marla didn't want to know about it.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
That one smooth black eye stared, and reflected in it I fancied I could see the cyclopeon city, and the endless column of the marching dead.
~ Unknown
It's the people who aren't scared who die young.
~ Unknown
The choice, as Eddie saw it, was as simple as it was brutal: get moving and keep moving or stand in one place long enough to start thinking about what all of this meant and simply die of fright.
~ Stephen King, It
Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit, And look on death itself!
~ William Shakespeare, Macbeth
I care not a man can die but once we owe God a death.
~ William Shakespeare
Most people would die sooner than think in fact they do.
~ Bertrand Russell
Death be not proud though some have called Thee Mighty and dreadful for thou art not so.
~ John Donne
I fear death. I think I must learn to romanticize death so that I can cope with its brutal irreversible numbness...!
~ Lukhman Pambra
Before we're born we've all of us been dead for millions of years...but we're always afraid of going back...
~ Unknown
She let herself fall backwards into the music, and it was like falling in a dream, without fear.It was like being a raindrop falling into the ocean that had started you.
~ L.J. Smith, Secret Vampire