The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
All we have to fear is fear itself.
When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.
No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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.
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.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Character building begins in our infancy, and continues until 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.
You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
People living deeply have no fear of death.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
