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My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. -- Huey Newton
Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying. -- Polly Toynbee
Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony. -- Jack Kevorkian
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. -- Francis Bacon
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death. -- Epictetus
I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death. -- A. N. Wilson
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death. -- David Sarnoff
In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal. -- Carol P. Christ
Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom. -- Rachel Corrie
What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths. -- J. G. Ballard
Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance. -- Stanley Hauerwas
I don't have any fear of death. I do, however, have an inordinate fear of becoming dependent on other people. To me, that's the severest test, not death. -- Huston Smith
The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue. -- Salvatore Quasimodo
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. -- Indira Gandhi
Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death. -- Donald Cargill
We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth. -- Alison Gopnik
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived. -- Harold Kushner
I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not prone to depression, but I get depressed because everybody gets depressed. Suddenly I'm away from my family or doing a job I'm not enjoying. -- David Thewlis
One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death. -- Max Lucado
The good news is that even though we walk through this valley of death, we don't have to fear, at least not for ourselves! Unfortunately, there is no way to skip over the valley altogether, we must face death and the evidence of evil all around us. But there will come a day... And what a day that will be! -- Ted Dekker
Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life. -- Naguib Mahfouz
Man does not fear death, only the suffering. -- Witold Gombrowicz
What shall he fear that does not fear death. -- Friedrich Schiller
The real malady is fear of life, not of death -- Naguib Mahfouz
I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death. -- Alexandre Dumas
He who does not fear death cares naught for threats. -- Pierre Corneille
It is not death we fear, but the thought of it. -- Seneca the Elder
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life. -- Bertolt Brecht
Firstly, do not fear hardship, and secondly, do not fear death. -- Mao Zedong
With my partner beside me, I fear nothing, not even death. -- Ann Aguirre
If thou hadst a good conscience thou wouldst not greatly fear death. -- Thomas a Kempis
I've accomplished enough in life so that I do not fear death. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Death is not the enemy; living in constant fear of it is. -- Norman Cousins
Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is. -- Oliver Lodge
Live in Christ, die in Christ, and the flesh need not fear death. -- John Knox
It is not death therefore that is burdensome, but the fear of death. -- Ambrose Burnside
What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death? -- Frank Herbert
What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not. -- Epicurus
Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal. -- Benjamin Franklin
What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death. -- Alphonsus Liguori
A man is not dependent upon his fellow creature, when he does not fear death. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
We might remember ... not to fear death; it is the only way to be cleansed. -- Robinson Jeffers
Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death. -- Francois Fenelon
A true believer does not fear physical death, rather he fears the death of his heart -- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. -- Erik Erikson
I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be. -- James Salter
I do not fear death, for death transforms visionaries into martyrs; converts noble ideas into powerful movements. -- Dan Brown
The desire of death will not always lead you to death but the fear of death will. -- Santosh Kalwar
It's not the end that I fear with each breath- It's life that scares me to death. -- Tim McIlrath
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. -- Marcus Aurelius
You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where. -- John Dryden
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully. -- Frances Moore LappÃ©
Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. -- Plato
Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death. -- Jack London
The death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid. -- Bryan Stevenson
Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life. -- Brennan Manning
The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown. -- Plato
All beings tremble before danger, all fear death. When a man considers this, he does not kill or cause to kill. -- Anonymous
I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me. -- Edith Cavell
The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all. -- Edward Abbey
Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music. -- John Cage
All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill. -- Gautama Buddha
So, the fear of death might be described as the fear of not being able to become whom one had planned to be. -- Pascal Mercier
We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us. -- Ann Landers
Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live? -- Jack Kornfield
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death. -- Denis Diderot
Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear. -- Epicurus
It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death. -- Otto Weininger
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. -- Socrates
Getting well is not the only goal. Even more important is learning to live without fear, to be at peace with life and ultimately death. -- Bernie Siegel
I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding. -- Socrates
It [death] chokes you, gags you, but you have to pretend that you're doing just fine, not trembling with this fear because the end is close. -- Ellen Hopkins
Childbirth calls into question our very existence, requiring an expectant couple to confront not only new life but death, pain, fear and, most of all, change. -- Elizabeth Noble
For me the moment of death will be a moment of jubilation, not of fear. I cried when I was born and I shall die laughing. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
None will be able to resist truth and love and sincerity. Are you sincere? Unselfish even unto death, and loving? Then fear not, not even death. -- Swami Vivekananda
Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death? -- Epictetus
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. -- Mark Twain
According to the yoga tradition, fear is the source of disease, decay - physical harm, when we're not thriving. And then finally, it's even the cause of death. -- Rod Stryker
Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear; Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear. -- Walter Savage Landor
But death does not stand at the end of life, it is all through it. It is the fear of losing, the knowledge of losing that makes love tender. -- Benedict Freedman
and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan. -- Khaled Hosseini
I do not fear death. I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear. -- Roger Ebert

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