Epictetus Quotes

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.

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

My biggest fear in life is losing the people I love, and the thing with cancer is that it seems that you can't really control it.

I'm terrified I'm about to die, or that all the people I love are about to die, every second of every day.

I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

I fear dying. Anything with pain associated with it, I don't like.

Fear was the knowledge of pain, the awareness that you could be hurt, that you could die.

It is fear that is the greatest cause of misery in the world.

Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.

Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.

Fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

Failure? Scared to death of it.

Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.

I find looking forward scary because you might die.

Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.

Blood and death. That moves me.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.

I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.

The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.