Maya Lin Quotes

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

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Firstly, do not fear hardship, and secondly, do not fear death.

In life, there's a lot that I'm afraid of. Death is always scary. My sister passed away. I'm not scared to die, so much as I was scared to not have her in my life, and it took a long time for me to reconcile that. There are fears everyday, and things that I'm afraid of. I fear everything, but I keep going.

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.

When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.

When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

If you're afraid of death, I would say, either fight for your life or come to grips with the fact you may not make it. And in doing that there shouldn't be bitterness. There should be a celebration. There should be an understanding of how lucky you are. That's how I feel.

He that fears death loses the joys of life.

In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

Just because you've faced your own mortality, it doesn't make it any less frightening.

As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.

Only by a frank discussion of the very details of dying can we best deal with those aspects that frighten us the most. It is by knowing the truth... that we rid ourselves of that fear of the terra incognita of death.

Dealing with death is there forever, really, you know, because we all have to face it.

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

I think the idea that death is not the end, that your dog's just gone to live on the farm, is limiting. Thoughts like that prevent you from making the most of the time that you have.

We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.

The decisive moment in a man’s life is when he decides to confront death.

I've seen so many women in my family, so many mothers, that have lost children in the war in such absurd ways. I wonder how they do it. How do they keep living? How do they keep smiling?

I am not going to be licked by tragedy, as life is a challenge, and we must carry on and work for the living as well as mourn for the dead.

Once you've stared death in the face, every day is a good day.

I've learned to accept death better than most people.

I love to smile, even through pain.

I had a choice whether to live or die, and I chose to live.