Avoiding Death Quotes:

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

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

- Virginia Woolf

topic: Life, Meaningful, Peace, True Peace, Avoidance

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

- Helen Keller

topic: Inspirational, Life, Strength, Journey Inspirational, I Am Strong

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

- Helen Keller

topic: Spiritual, Doe, Superstitions, Experiencing Things, Either Or

Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death.

- Otto Rank

topic: Debt, Loan, Refuse, Avoidance, Psychoanalytic

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

- Marcus Aurelius

source: Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.144, Sheba Blake Publishing

topic: Life, Moving On, Wise, Not Afraid Of Death, One Life To Live

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.

- George Carlin

topic: Funny, Witty, Thinking, Cramming, Final Exams

You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live

- Ayn Rand

source: Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.109, Penguin

topic: Life, Happiness, Death, Avoiding Death

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

- Socrates

topic: Death, Running, Faster, Avoiding Death, Unrighteousness

You can't find peace by avoiding life.

- Michael Cunningham

topic: Peace, Finding Peace, Avoiding, True Peace, International Peace Day

You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.

- Michael Cunningham

topic: Finding Peace, Avoiding, True Peace, International Peace Day, Peace Tranquility

Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?

- Lois McMaster Bujold

topic: Thinking, People, Alive, Wishful Thinking, Avoiding Death

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Inspirational, Life, Rights, Avoiding Death, Avoiding Life

The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...His whole life is absorbed in avoiding death, which is inevitable, and therefore he might be thought to be the most irrational of men, if rationality has anything to do with understanding ends or comprehending the human situation as such. He gives way without reserve to his most powerful passion and the wishes it engenders.

- Allan Bloom

topic: Powerful, Passion, Men, Utilitarian, Comprehending

[N]either in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms, and fall on his knees before his pursuers, he may escape death; and in other dangers there are other ways of escaping death, if a man is willing to say and do anything. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

- Socrates

topic: Running, War, Fall, Avoiding Death, Unrighteousness