Mary Renault Quotes

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.

In horror of death, I took to the mountains - again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of death, capturing the fortress of the deathless unending nature of mind. Now all fear of death is over and done.

Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.

Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.

I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.

He that fears death loses the joys of life.

I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear.

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

I've always been terrified of dying, always. It was a concern of mine long before it had to be.

Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

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

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

I think being dead isn't any problem. It's the process of dying which is quite off-putting.

I don't think having a fear of death is unreasonable.