John Bunyan Quotes

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

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

But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.

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.

... there is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

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

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

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Every journey starts with fear.

It is better to die once than to be always in fear of death.

The decisive moment in a man’s life is when he decides to confront death.

Change takes courage.

To imagine a better life for yourself and your family and to leave behind all that is familiar requires a special kind of courage.

Once you've stared death in the face, every day is a good day.

In war, everything changes. You are very selective of what you do because everything you do can be the last thing you do in your life.

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

The thing is, the more you fear death, the more you die. So it really doesn't pay off. It's a fear of the dark. Like any experience in life, you wonder, Well, if this ever happens, how would I react? and then it happens, and only then do you know.

Whenever there is fear, there is opportunity. When there is great fear, there is great opportunity.

Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear?

Most of us were not afraid of death, only of the act of dying; and there were times when we overcame even this fear. At such moments we were free-men without shadows, dismissed from the ranks of the mortal; it was the most complete experience of freedom that can be granted a man.

If you seek security in life, unknowingly you seek death. The only truly secure place is your grave.

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