Quotes on Do Not Fear Death

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

Do not fear death, but welcome it, since it too comes from nature. For just as we are young and grow old, and flourish and reach maturity, have teeth and a beard and grey hairs, conceive, become pregnant, and bring forth new life, and all the other natural processes that follow the seasons of our existence, so also do we have death. A thoughtful person will never take death lightly, impatiently, or scornfully, but will wait for it as one of life's natural processes.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

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?

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

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.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.