Henry Van Dyke Quotes

I think that the problem is that people fear so many things and they don't live life to its fullest. And for me as an artist, if God should want me to come this Wednesday to the end of my life, so be it.

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

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

I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.

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.

We cannot let fear and terror dictate how we live our lives, no matter what. Life is a blessing with an expiration date, and we must embrace it while we can.

A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.

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

We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully.

He that fears death loses the joys of life.

I'm gonna live till I die.

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

There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.

I don't want to die. Damn death. Long live life.

You can only die once, so do not die a thousand times worrying about it.

Death is the end of the fear of death. [...] To avoid it we must not stop fearing it and so life is fear. Death is time because time allows us to move toward death which we fear at all times when alive. We move around and that is fear. Movement through space requires time. Without death there is no movement through space and no life and no fear. To be aware of death is to be alive is to fear is to move around in space and time toward death.

To go back is nothing but death; but to go forward is fear of death and life everlasting beyond.

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!

Ah, I hope to live to 87 and drink from the the goblet of life to the dregs.

As far as I'm concerned, I want to do everything because life is short. So, when I did 'The Red Violin' film, I got to go to the Oscars, and I got to meet Samuel Jackson, and I got to do stuff that one wouldn't normally do in my world.

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

What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn't failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don't keeping waiting.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

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

Every man dies. Not every man lives.