Fear Of Dying Quotes:

Joy of living is sustainable; fear of dying is not.

- Dean Ornish

source: Dean Ornish, M.D. (2007). “The Spectrum: How to Customize a Way of Eating and Living Just Right for You and Your Family”, p.3, Ballantine Books

topic: Joy, Dying, Fear Of Dying

Death frees from the fear of dying

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Dying, Fear Of Dying

Verily, a man without fear is either dead or happy to die.

- Wayne Gerard Trotman

topic: Men, Fear Of Dying, Recklessness

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

- Seneca the Younger

topic: Birthday, Lasts, Eternity, Memorial For Loved One, Inspirational Mourning

According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.

- Jerry Seinfeld

topic: Funny, Hilarious, Death, Presentation Skills, Fear Of Public Speaking

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

- Bertolt Brecht

topic: Life, Death, Fear, Afraid Of Death, Inadequate

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

- Erik Erikson

source: Erik H. Erikson (1993). “Childhood and Society”, p.269, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Life, Death, Children, Elders, Children Dying

God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.

- John Donne

source: John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.241

topic: Death, Men, Good Man, Fear Of Dying

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

- Giovanni Falcone

topic: Death, Fear Of Death, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying, Dealing With Death

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Life, Fear, Failure, Inspirational Death, Stanford University

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Fear Of Love, Intense Love

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

- Tecumseh

source: "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

topic: Life, Death, Wisdom, Indian Wisdom, Meaningful Death

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

- Mark Twain

topic: Death, Atheist, Fear, Finality, Not Afraid Of Death

Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

- Susan Ertz

source: Anger in the Sky ch. 5 (1943)

topic: Inspirational, Sunday, Long, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

- Jim Butcher

source: Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.997, Penguin

topic: Bible, Shadow Of Death, Death Of A Loved One, Valley Of Death, Someone Dying

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

- Mark Twain

topic: Positive, Men, Fear Of Death, Someone Who Is Dying, Live To The Fullest

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

- David Sarnoff

topic: Death, Danger, Awe, Meaningful Death, Inspirational Death

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

- Ashley Montagu

topic: Death, Ideas, Young, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

- Tecumseh

topic: Song, Hero, Home, Indian Tribes, Meaningful Death

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Inspiring, Wise, Buddhist, Someone Who Is Dying, Inspirational Buddhist

Courage is not the absence of fear

- Richard Stengel

topic: Absence, Peaceful Warrior, Afraid Of Life, Inspirational Courage, Inspirational Recovery

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Life, Death, Afraid Of Death, Someone Dying

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

- Francis Bacon

source: Essays "Of Death" (1625)

topic: Death, Fear, Children, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

- Francis Bacon

topic: Death, Fear, Believe, Death And Dying, Do Not Fear Death

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

- Emily Dickinson

source: "Because I could not stop for death" l. 1 (ca. 1862)

topic: Death, Spiritual, Emotional, Sympathy Card, Do Not Fear Death

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.

- Henry Van Dyke

topic: Death, People, Afraid Of Death, Live Life To Its Fullest, Meaningful Death

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

- J. K. Rowling

source: J. K. Rowling (2002). “Spark Notes Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone”, Spark Notes

topic: Death, Travel, Adventure, Meaningful Death, Memorable Harry Potter

People living deeply have no fear of death.

- Anais Nin

topic: Life, Inspiring, Death, Joy Of Living, Meaningful Death

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

- Francis Beaumont

source: Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1778). “The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Humorous lieutenant. Faithfl shepherdess. Mad lover. Loyal subject. Rule a wife and have a wife”, p.60

topic: Sleep, Men, Sounder, Fear Of Dying

We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.

- Jean de la Bruyere

source: "Of the Heart". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

topic: Happiness, Happy, Laughing, Fear Of Dying, Self Happiness

So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide

- Tecumseh

source: "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

topic: Song, Love You, Heart, Indian Tribes, Indian Wisdom

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Inspirational, Death, Courage, Someone Dying, Meaningful Death

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.

- Marcel Proust

topic: Death, Thinking, People, Fear Of Dying, Thoughts Of Death

To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying.

- Richard Henry Lee

source: Richard Henry Lee (1825). “Memoir of the Life of Richard H. Lee, and His Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Men in America and Europe”

topic: Government, Dying, Liberty, Fear Of Dying, Bad Government

I realized I had written maybe, I dunno, the first ever asexual love song. Where it's really just about a fear of dying alone - you need contact, you need love, you need empathy. You need this relationship but if there's no sex involved, people act like it's not a legitimate relationship.

- Bradford Cox

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Song, Love You, People, Need Love, Fear Of Dying

Unlike previous wars, our enemy now is a stateless network of religious extremists. They do not obey the laws of war, they hide among peaceful populations and launch surprise attacks on civilians. They have no armed forces per se, no territory or citizens to defend and no fear of dying during their attacks. Information is our primary weapon against this enemy, and intelligence gathered from captured operatives is perhaps the most effective means of preventing future attacks.

- John Yoo

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Surprise Attacks, Fear Of Dying, Captured

I'm slightly pessimistic about human nature, about how close it's possible to bond with those around you. Dying alone is a deep fear for most people. I'm not scared of death but I'm scared of dying scared. Maybe everything else in life comes from those two points: the separation anxiety of childhood and the ultimate fear of dying alone.

- Jonathan Trigell

source: Source: www.3ammagazine.com

topic: Dying Alone, Two, People, Fear Of Dying, Scared Of Death

I do not have any fears, no fear of dying, of failure, of anything; that means I am very dangerous for my opponents.

- Imran Khan

topic: Mean, Dying, Opponents, Fear Of Dying

The best part of chronic head lice is it takes away your fear of dying alone.

- Dana Gould

source: FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Jul 25, 2013

topic: Dying Alone, Dying, Lice, Fear Of Dying

Basically, when I'm writing something, I think about what is the subject of the piece. The subject of the piece is our fear of getting old, which is a variation on our fear of dying.

- M. Night Shyamalan

source: Source: www.moviesonline.ca

topic: Writing, Thinking, Dying, Fear Of Dying

When we usually think of fears, in comics or in films, it's most often fears on a relatively superficial level: fear of murderous insects, of ghosts, of zombies, or even fear of dying.

- Boaz Lavie

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Thinking, Zombie, Dying, Fear Of Dying

Because the biological mechanisms that affect our health and well-being are so dynamic, when people change their diet and lifestyle, they usually feel so much better, so quickly; it reframes the reason for changing from fear of dying to joy of living. Also, the support that patients give each other is a powerful motivator

- Dean Ornish

source: "Dean Ornish Talks Lifestyle As Treatment At NYC’s Integrative Healthcare Symposium". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 12, 2012.

topic: Change, Powerful, People, Fear Of Dying

I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. Were loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.

- Jennifer Lopez

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, People, Dying, Fear Of Dying

As women glide from their twenties to thirties, Shazzer argues, the balance of power subtly shifts. Even the most outrageous minxes lose their nerve, wrestling with the first twinges of existential angst: fears of dying alone and being found three weeks later half-eaten by an Alsatian.

- Helen Fielding

topic: Wrestling, Dying Alone, Balance, Minx, Balance Of Power

Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than when his only brother was killed in the flour mill or when his children died, stronger even than when he was a child and it first occurred to him that he must try to understand what it could mean not to be alive -- to be not in darkness, not in unfeeling -- to be not being, not to be.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

source: Jonathan Safran Foer (2003). “Everything is Illuminated”, p.50, Penguin UK

topic: Brother, Children, Mean, Fear Of Dying, Unfeeling

People help way more than we expect, way more than makes sense. But when you talk to people called heroes, they often say they did it for themselves. In one case, a hero said that the cost of not doing it is so great, the sense of shame, when he knew that he was strong enough, that the fear of not doing anything was more frightening than the fear of dying.

- Amanda Ripley

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Strong, Hero, People, Fear Of Dying