Steve Jobs Quotes

Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.

You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.

Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

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

No one can avoid death; it is inevitable. Therefore, I should create in my mind a kind of willingness and accepting for that event without any fear.

Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.

Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

It's a very big deal to me to remain the same person because I know all of this is going to be gone one day and I'm just going to have myself.

An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.

I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me.

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.