Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know.

I find looking forward scary because you might die.

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

People are afraid of what they don't know.

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.

Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.

What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb. "Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, for one thing, what happens next? Where do we go? Is it what we imagined?" That's big. "Yes. But there's something else." What else? He leaned forward. "Being forgotten," he whispered.

He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

I always think it's not what we know that's terrifying; it's what we don't know. That's sort of pervasive with everything in life.

Death - Death can be faced, dealt with, adjusted to, outlived. It's the not knowing that destroys interminably... This being suspended in suspense; waiting - weightless, How does one face the faceless, adjust to nothing? Waiting implies something to wait for. Is there? There is One. One who knows... I rest my soul on that.

People are afraid of things they don't understand.

He was no more, freed from being, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he'd feared from the start.

Death is, in some ways, unacceptable. It's just an astonishing fact of our being here that we die; but I think worse than that is if we live long enough, we lose everyone we love in this world. I mean people die and disappear, and we're left with this stark mystery: just the sheer not knowing of what happened to them.

This fear of death infused me with the desire to live, and to live harder.

I think most people are afraid of what they don't know.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.

I don't know what's on the other side.