Facing Death Quotes:

Isn’t it sad that so often it takes facing death to appreciate life and each other fully?

- Esther Earl

topic: Appreciate, Appreciate Life, Facing 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

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Death, People, Someone Who Is Dying, Meaningful Death

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

- Frank Herbert

source: Frank Herbert (2010). “Heretics Of Dune: The Fifth Dune Novel”, p.10, Hachette UK

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Fear, Favourite Book, Overcoming Failure

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

- Rabindranath Tagore

topic: Life, Encouragement, Self Esteem, Obstacle In Life, Fearlessness

Facing death calmly is praiseworthy only if one faces it alone. Death together is no longer death, even for unbelievers. The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning. When love is our whole life, what difference is there between living together and dying together ?

- Raymond Radiguet

topic: Lying, Love Is, Differences, Facing Death

Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life. Rodger Rosenblatt As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Death, Sleep, Thinking, Live Life To Its Fullest, Live To The Fullest

Everyone dies but not everyone lives.

- William Wallace

topic: Someone Dying, Inspirational Grieving, Memorial For Loved One, Death Anniversary, Death Remembrance

For the gift of life, the only true thanks was in living fully, and facing death with honor.

- Janet Morris

source: Janet Morris, Chris Morris (1990). “Storm Seed”, Baen Books

topic: Death, Honor, Meaning Of Life, Living Fully, Facing Death

Why exactly are we so frightened of death that we avoid looking at it altogether? Somewhere, deep down, we know we cannot avoid facing death forever. We know, in Milarepa's words: "This thing called 'corpse' we dread so much is living with us here and now."

- Sogyal Rinpoche

source: Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.25, Harper Collins

topic: Death, Forever, Dying, Facing Death

Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. True courage is about facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right. ~Amber

- Robin Hobb

topic: Mean, Thinking, Talking, Facing Life, Facing Death

You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Change, Positive, Happiness, Times Have Changed, Ready For Change

To almost no one's surprise, Astrid said, "Dune, by Frank Herbert. 'I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that bring total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the Fear has gone there will be nothing.'" She and Lana together spoke the last phrase of the incantation. "'Only I will remain.

- Michael Grant

topic: Eye, Past, Mind, Favourite Book, Have No Fear

Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.

- Rabindranath Tagore

topic: Pain, Heart, Grieving, Fearlessness, Fears Of Life

Death is a vast mystery, but there are two things we can say about it: It is absolutely certain that we will die, and it is uncertain when or how we will die. The only surety we have, then, is this uncertainty about the hour of our death, which we seize on as the excuse to postpone facing death directly. We are like children who cover their eyes in a game of hide and seek and think that no one can see them.

- Sogyal Rinpoche

source: Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.25, Harper Collins

topic: Death, Children, Eye, Hide And Seek, Facing Death

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

Life will undertake to separate us, and we must each set off in search of our own path, our own destiny or our own way of facing death.

- Paulo Coelho

source: Paulo Coelho (2013). “Manuscript Found in Accra”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

topic: Destiny, Way, Path, Facing Death

I have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour by non-violently facing death may and ought to do so by violently dealing with the oppressor. He who can do neither of the two is a burden. He has no business to be the head of a family. He must either hide himself, or must rest content to live for ever in helplessness and be prepared to crawl like a worm at the bidding of a bully.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

topic: Two, Bully, Bidding, Oppressors, Facing Death

You are facing death and danger and competition, but at any moment, you can decide to have a fearless mindset.

- Robert Greene

source: Source: allhiphop.com

topic: Competition, Fearless, Moments, Facing Death

A physicist friend of mine once said that in facing death, he drew some consolation from the reflection that he would never again have to look up the word "hermeneutics" in the dictionary.

- Steven Weinberg

source: Steven Weinberg (2012). “Facing Up”, p.141, Harvard University Press

topic: Reflection, Looks, Look Up, Hermeneutics, Facing Death

We are all dying and we all have some anxiety about it. And so people are more scared of dying than they are of drugs. If we can show that people who are facing death can be assisted with psychedelics that's a powerful message.

- Rick Doblin

topic: Powerful, People, Anxiety, Facing Death

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

- Andrew Sachs

topic: Death, Life Death, Someone Dying, Inspirational Grieving, Memorial For Loved One

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Happy, Peace, Sleep, Live Life To Its Fullest, Meaningful Death

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

- Thomas B. Macaulay

topic: God, Father, Men, Facing Death, Ancient Rome

Learning appears as a way of staying young, perhaps of staying alive, and also as a way of growing up, perhaps facing death.

- Richard Wollheim

topic: Growing Up, Alive, Way, Facing Death

Kaz came to Switzerland where I was teaching to share with me [Heart Sutra] wondrous insight. There he and I worked on this new translation - with my part being to help render it into a verse form that would be good to chant. Since I have worked with many dying people over the years and often share the Heart Sutra with them, I found this new version that we created together to be so much more accessible to those who were facing death.

- Joan Halifax

topic: Facing Death

I often speak to returning service people about their experiences while serving. Whether in 1915 or 2005, the core issue of facing death on a daily basis remains.

- Charles Todd

source: Source: www.bookbrowse.com

topic: Issues, People, Speak, Facing Death

For me, the most powerful way to write about something is through the absence of it. Rather than writing about what it was to become a new mother, I wrote, for example, a father facing death and addressing his estranged son about the regrets of his relationship.

- Nicole Krauss

source: "Nicole Krauss’ Plot Thickens". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2010.

topic: Mother, Powerful, Regret, Facing Death, New Mother

If a general and his men fear death and are apprehensive over possible defeat, then they will unavoidably suffer defeat and death. But if they make up their minds, from the general down to the last footsoldier, not to think of living but only of standing in one place and facing death together, then, though they may have no other thought than meeting death, they will instead hold on to life and gain victory.

- Yoshida Shoin

source: "Yoshida Shoin Zenshu" by Yoshida Shoin, vol. I, 1938.

topic: Men, Thinking, Mind, Facing Death

I tried to think about these two issues very freely. With sex, I think I can manage with that. With death, this is a more difficult theme for me. I'm not a believer, even though I'm baptized. I don't practice. I don't believe in God, so I feel very alone facing death. What I discovered is that the only way to recognize death is if you are part of life, if you are part of sexual pleasure, if you link it with sexual pleasure.

- Pedro Almodovar

topic: Sex, Believe, Thinking, Facing Death