mortality fear Quotes

It's not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It's like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death's terror. We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.

People continue to fear dying, only because no one ever has.

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

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.

A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more. The heart rebels against this, and feels that it cannot be true.

We're afraid to live, because we're afraid of dying.

We have a lot of fear around death, and I thought maybe I can help somebody... I want people to be less scared.

I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die.

Death is the end of the fear of death. [...] To avoid it we must not stop fearing it and so life is fear. Death is time because time allows us to move toward death which we fear at all times when alive. We move around and that is fear. Movement through space requires time. Without death there is no movement through space and no life and no fear. To be aware of death is to be alive is to fear is to move around in space and time toward death.

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

You can't really live until you are no longer afraid to die.

It's pretty scary to know how quickly time flies.

The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.

I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.

Would I be healed now if you gave me your blood, Nikolai?” “Are you asking me for it?” “If I were, would you give it to me?

Death is not the enemy; living in constant fear of it is.

Timor mortis conturbat me. The fear of death disturbs me.

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

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

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.

My day-to-day local issues are rooted in an underlying fear of death.

He shimmered out, and I sat up in bed with that rather unpleasant feeling you get sometimes that you're going to die in about five minutes.

I think we'd all like to believe that after we shuffle off this mortal coil, that there's going to be something on the other side because for most of us, I know for me, life is so rich, so colorful and sensual and full of good things, things to read, things to eat, things to watch, places to go, new experiences, that I don't want to think that you just go to darkness.

Every man's death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love the man who stands for us.