Richard Brake Quotes

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

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

Fear of death only comes through the brittleness of the ego.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Timor mortis conturbat me. The fear of death disturbs me.

I don't think I've ever been particularly scared of death - but scared of dying, the process. It doesn't seem to be a good way of doing it.

You know, it's an interesting think when you consider... The Earth people, who can think, are so frightened by those who cannot: the dead.

Surveys show that the #1 fear of Americans is public speaking. #2 is death. That means that at a funeral, the average American would rather be in the casket than doing the eulogy.

Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

The fear of death is for all of us everywhere, but for the great intelligence of the opium eater it is beautifully narrowed into the crux of drugs.

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.

Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.

Uncommon extension of the fear of death.

I feel lousy about the pain that I've caused my wife and kids. I feel guilty and conscience-stricken, and all of those things you think sentimental, but which my generation calls simple human decency. And I miss my home, because I'm beginning to get scared shitless, because all of a sudden it's closer to the end than the beginning, and death is suddenly a perceptible thing to me, with definable features.

Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.

Pain and Oblivion make mankind afraid to die; but all creatures are afraid of the one, none but mankind afraid of the other.

Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than when his only brother was killed in the flour mill or when his children died, stronger even than when he was a child and it first occurred to him that he must try to understand what it could mean not to be alive -- to be not in darkness, not in unfeeling -- to be not being, not to be.

But everybody is afraid of death; that too is contagious. Your parents are afraid of death, your neighbors are afraid of death. Small children start getting infected by this constant fear all around. Everybody is afraid of death. People don't even want to talk about death.

For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.

I'm afraid to look in the mirror. I'm afraid I'm going to see an old lady with white hair, just like the old ladies in the park. Alittle bundle in a black shawl just waiting for the coffin.

All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.