“How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.”
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“Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.”
“An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.”
“No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.”
“I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.”
“Death in itself is nothing but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.”
“He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.”
“Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.”
“Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.”
“My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.”
“Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.”
“I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.”
“Less base the fear of death than fear of life.”
“I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.”
“Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.”
“I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.”
“Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.”
“Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.”
“The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.”
“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.”
“Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.”
“There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.”
“Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.”
“It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.”