Fear of the Inevitable Quotes

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?

Living is what scares me. Dying is easy.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know.

I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.

This fear of death infused me with the desire to live, and to live harder.

I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect.

Wherever you are afraid, try to explore, and you will find death hiding somewhere behind. All fear is of death. Death is the only fear source.

I fear dying. Anything with pain associated with it, I don't like.

The biggest fear of my life is living. My second biggest fear is dying.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

If you really want to know what motivated me as a young man, it was a fear of death.

I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put if off as long as we can. But it makes very little difference. So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.

Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.

My liveliness is based on an incredible fear of death. In order to keep death at bay, I do a lot of "Yah! Yah! Yah!" And death says, "All right. He's too noisy and busy. I'll wait for someone who's sitting quietly, half asleep."

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

What I am afraid of is the first thing I was ever aware of being afraid of and what I have told my daughter countless times she need not fear: being alone in the dark. It is a small prison of emotion from which there is no escape. It is also, in its own way, a shattering revelation.

She lived in fear of ifonic endings.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.

I definitely have a fear of spiders. Don't we want to embrace our fears?

The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.

Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.