Quotes on Fear Of Dying

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.

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

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

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Because the biological mechanisms that affect our health and well-being are so dynamic, when people change their diet and lifestyle, they usually feel so much better, so quickly; it reframes the reason for changing from fear of dying to joy of living. Also, the support that patients give each other is a powerful motivator.

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.

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.

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

Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

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

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than when his only brother was killed in the flour mill or when his children died, stronger even than when he was a child and it first occurred to him that he must try to understand what it could mean not to be alive -- to be not in darkness, not in unfeeling -- to be not being, not to be.

Death frees from the fear of dying