Otto von Bismarck
Statesman, Chancellor
"Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death."
Fear Of Death quotes
Fear Of Death
89 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Robert Anton Wilson
Author, Philosopher
"The fear of death is the beginning of slavery."
Tupac Shakur
Rapper, Actor, Activist
"My only fear of death is reincarnation"
Mao Zedong
Politician, Revolutionary
"Firstly, do not fear hardship, and secondly, do not fear death."
Cato the Elder
Politician, Orator
"He who fears death has already lost the life he covets."
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"The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears."
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"I have never been able to be so allured by the prospect of advantages or so terrified by misfortunes, swayed by honours or fettered by affection, nay not even so smitten by the fear of death, as to enter upon marriage."
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"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."
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"So, the fear of death might be described as the fear of not being able to become whom one had planned to be."
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"Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least."
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"HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass."
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"I don't fear death. - I just don't want to be around when it happens."
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"My biggest fear of death is to come back reincarnated"
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"What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death?"
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"I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep."
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"There is a fear of voluptuousness that is itself voluptuous, just as a certain fear of death can itself be deadly."
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"Fear of death only comes through the brittleness of the ego."
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"God is the pain of the fear of death"
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"The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death."
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"Laughter allows us to get past the fear of death."
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"A man is not dependent upon his fellow creature, when he does not fear death."
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"He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "Where is it? What death?" There was no fear because there was no death. In place of death there was light."
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"Less base the fear of death than fear of life."
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"The fear of death comes from limited awareness."
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"I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death."
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