When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.
It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.
A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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.
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
Could any death be so horrible as birth? Or any decrepitude so awful as childhood in a happy united God-fearing family?
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.
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
All we have to fear is fear itself.
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
We should never negotiate out of fear, but we should never fear to negotiate.
I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
