Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.
When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.
Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
Could any death be so horrible as birth? Or any decrepitude so awful as childhood in a happy united God-fearing family?
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
All we have to fear is fear itself.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.
If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. Im not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.
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.
Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
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.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
