Its better to burn out than fade away.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
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.
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.
We should never negotiate out of fear, but we should never fear to negotiate.
Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.
No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.
My feet is my only courage
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.
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.
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
People living deeply have no fear of death.
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?
