Plato Quotes

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

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

We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

I am not afraid to die. I simply do not want to.

I don't believe in God, so I'm not afraid of dying.

Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying's as natural as living. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live.

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

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

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

Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.

There’s an old Ritadarion saying. You’re never more alive than when you walk hand in hand with death. (Syn)

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

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

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.