Garrett Fort Quotes

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.

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

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.

To have died once is enough.

I am scared of death.

The only thing that scares me is dying.

How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

I don't want to hear about my death.

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

Sometimes I would make myself very still and try to imagine myself dead. I tried to invoke the feeling of the very last breath I would take.

I'm not really obsessed with death.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.'

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

I'm dying always.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.

Once you're dead, your worries are over.