Colleen Hoover Quotes

Don't live in fear of dying.

I've accomplished enough in life so that I do not fear death.

If you live your life fully, you will die only once. But if you are scared, fear will kill you day after day

It is written that the last enemy to be vanquished is death. We should begin early in life to vanquish this enemy by obliterating every trace of the fear of death from our minds. Then can we turn to life and fill the whole horizon of our souls with it, turn with added zest to all the serious tasks which it imposes and to the pure delights which here and there it affords.

If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . . Men sleep contentedly, assured that they will wake the following morning. They should feel the same about their lives.

Joy of living is sustainable; fear of dying is not.

I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

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

I'm not afraid to die. But I'm afraid to not live.

I don't mind aging - I'm glad to be aging. I'll never die young.

Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.

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

Getting well is not the only goal. Even more important is learning to live without fear, to be at peace with life and ultimately death.

Only those persons who have lived, really lived, are ready, welcoming, receptive, thankful to death. Then death is not the enemy. Then death becomes the fulfillment.

I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.

I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?

Death is not the enemy; living in constant fear of it is.

And one day, this thing happened to me: I coughed, and the blood just came gushing out of my mouth. ... I still can't believe that that happened to me, but I sat there, and I said to God, 'Well, if it means I'm going to die, that's OK.' I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.

Why fear death? Be scared of living.

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.