Plato Quotes

I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.

We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.

I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

Everybody is going to die, so people are enthralled by the possibility that they don't have to completely die, that there is something that comes afterward. It's like if you're going to France for the summer, you're going to read up on it. Everyone just wants to know where they're going, or if they're going anywhere.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

We used to think earthly life was horrible and paradise awaited us when we died. Now we have made earthly life into a paradise and we fear death.

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.

I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely.

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.'

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

I'm always curious about what happens when we die. And I'd like to think that somehow the spirit goes on. I'd rather not think that it's just about this.

I'm never afraid to die. I think that's the best thing that can happen to somebody is they get to move on and do something better.