Plato Quotes

I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

I thought that we all were afraid of death, but I've talked to my wife and other people, and they're not afraid of death the way I am. I find that really confusing. I don't like the idea of nothingness - that's terrifying to me.

To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.

The fear of death is far greater than the death itself. But the fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all!

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.

He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life.

Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?" "I guess it depends on how you die.

I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect.

It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is a part of being alive, something we all share. We react against the possibility of loneliness, of death, of not having anything to hold on to. Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.

I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death!

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

He that fears death loses the joys of life.

Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.

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

Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.

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

I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.