Bertolt Brecht Quotes

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

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.

People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.

Everyone dies. It is how one lives that matters.

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

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

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 adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.

I think there is, in our society, there is a growing fear of death, a fear of the circumstances in which I might die, a fear I might be over-treated or under-treated. But fear is always a bad guide. Death is part of life.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

We are all born to die—the difference is the intensity with which we choose to live.

It matters not how long we live but how.

We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully - for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up.

If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested in getting myself to believe that it's going to happen to me. I'm interested in it, because if you're not, you're nuts. It's really de facto what we're here to find out about.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death!

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.

There's not a higher stake than someone having to face their own death.

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.