Jay-Z Quotes

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

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

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

It is written that the last enemy to be vanquished is death. We should begin early in life to vanquish this enemy by obliterating every trace of the fear of death from our minds. Then can we turn to life and fill the whole horizon of our souls with it, turn with added zest to all the serious tasks which it imposes and to the pure delights which here and there it affords.

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

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.

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.

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

Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.

Don't live in fear of dying.

Don’t you want to be alive before you die?

You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?

There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.

If you live your life fully, you will die only once. But if you are scared, fear will kill you day after day

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

After you're dead [...] it's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.

Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life?

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

Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?

Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.