Felix Adler Quotes

Don't live in fear of dying.

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

The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of life. Life in its becoming is always shedding death, and on the point of death. The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure - fearlessness and achievement.

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

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

I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's what made me desperate to get the most out of life.

When I nearly died it made me think – this can happen again any second. I better hurry and do what I want. I started to live like I never lived before. When the fear of death is gone, then nothing can bother you and nobody can stop you.

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

You can't really live until you are no longer afraid to die.

But death doesn't scare me. To know exactly when I might expect it, up close and in my face, would actually be a comfort. Because to tell the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

... there is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.

If I live the life I'm given, I won't be scared to die.

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

This is why we shouldn't be afraid. There are two possibilities: One is that there's more to life than the physical life, that our souls "will find an even higher place to dwell" when this life is over. If that's true, there's no reason to fear failure or death. The other possibility is that this life is all there is. And if that's true, then we have to really live it - we have to take it for everything it has and "die enormous" instead of "living dormant," as I said way back on "Can I Live." Either way, fear is a waste of time.

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.

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

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

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

It is better to die once than to be always in fear of death.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

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