The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.
People living deeply have no fear of death.
Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.
It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.
Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
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.
Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.
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.
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
Could any death be so horrible as birth? Or any decrepitude so awful as childhood in a happy united God-fearing family?
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
A coward dies a thousand deaths... a soldier dies but once.
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.
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.
Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep.
Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.