Robinson Jeffers Quotes

I have no fear of death, except I hate waiting for it.

Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.

You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death.

If death is your lover, you don't got to be afraid ever that he will ever leave you

Now, when you are aware, you see the whole process of your thinking and action, but it can happen only when there is no condemnation. That is. When I condemn something, I do not understand it.

[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice.... Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without a conscience a man may never be said to grow old. This is an age of very old young men.

People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.

I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

Since peace is alone the gift of God, and as it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift in His beloved Son is the ground of no doubtful hope.

I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring.

How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not like a man who, having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back?

You do know I am my father’s son, right? People don’t talk to me that way and live. (Syn) Oh, like I fear you. Never. Besides, a fight might dislodge whatever has crawled up your sphincter and bring back the much nicer version of you. (Shahara)

If you are not afriad, thereis no way you will get mad at me. If you are not afraid, there is no way you will hate me. If you are not afraid, there is no way you will be jealous or sad.

We can love what we are, without hating what, and who, we are not.

I'ma be here for a while. None of these clowns can hurt me.

Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.

Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.

No matter what the circumstances, we Christians should keep our heads. God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, of love and of a sound mind. It is a dismal thing to see a son of heaven cringe in terror before the sons of earth.

At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth.

There's nothing to fear but fear itself. It's an illusion of fear. Fear is an illusion. If you gonna die, you gonna die anyway; it's not something to fear, fear is not gonna help.

I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Man, at his best, remains a sort of one-lunged animal, never completely rounded and perfect, as a cockroach, say, is perfect.

Men are good in but one way, but bad in many.