Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

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

All we have to fear is fear itself.

When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.

In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

There is nothing to fear but fear itself.

Character building begins in our infancy, and continues until death.

The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.

Its better to burn out than fade away.

If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.

We should never negotiate out of fear, but we should never fear to negotiate.