Could any death be so horrible as birth? Or any decrepitude so awful as childhood in a happy united God-fearing family?
All we have to fear is fear itself.
Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.
People living deeply have no fear of death.
There is nothing to fear but fear itself.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. Im not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.
The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.
One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.
