The fear of death is worse than death.


Robert Burton

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Shame is worse than death.
PROVERB
Shame is worse than death.
RUSSIAN PROVERB
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JIM MORRISON
People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more ...
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
EDWARD YOUNG
Life without Liberty is far worse than death.
HAMID KARZAI
Immortality - a fate worse than death.
EDGAR A. SHOAFF
There are worse things than death.
ERIN KELLISON
Absence from whom we love is worse than death.
WILLIAM COWPER
I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to car...
MARK HADDON
I have seen death face to face and returned to the world of living beings. I have savored the fear o...
MANOJE BASU
An unemployed existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
JOS
Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
G. GORDON LIDDY
Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.
G. GORDON LIDDY
For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death.
BHAGAVAD GITA
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could ...
MALCOLM X
There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.
ANTHON ST. MAARTEN
Conscience is worse than death, some people commit suicide to evade it.
EFRAT CYBULKIEWICZ
I think quite often a fate worse than death is life - for lots of people.
TOM BAKER
For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is ...
PLATO
It is not the certainty of death that we fear but more so the certainty of fear that death brings.
EMANOUHL
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
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And death is better because death is the end of fear, isnt it? -Dekka
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
WILLIAM COWPER
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
WILLIAM COWPER
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair
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—and I say you still haven't answered my question, Father Bleu."
"Haven't I, dear lady? I tho...
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The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death
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There is nothing in our biology that should prompt the fear of death, the longing for meaning, or th...
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There is nothing in our biology that should prompt the fear of death, the longing for meaning, or th...
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He did not fear death exactly, but he had evaded it for so many years that it had come to seem formi...
MICHAEL CHABON
Fear of Death only Brings Fear of Death"
P.C.M. Hermans
September 26, 2016
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Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better.
FREDERICH WILHELM NIETZCHE
Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.
OLIVER JOSEPH LODGE
Fear of death is fear of surrender to Infinity.
Learn to surrender, to exist at Infinity while...
ADI DA SAMRAJ
As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.
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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine...
ADRIENNE RICH
They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine...
ADRIENNE RICH
Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ul...
ECKHART TOLLE
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Do what you fear, and the death of fear is certain
ANTHONY ROBBINS
And silence sounds no worse than cheers / After death has stopped the ears.
A. E. HOUSMAN
Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows...
SOCRATES
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
EPICTETUS
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
MARK TWAIN
And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After death has stopped the ears.
A.E. HOUSMAN
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meet...
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They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome th...
G. GORDON LIDDY
There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.
CASSANDRA CLARE
For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.
EPICTETUS
For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear a...
HERMANN HESSE
The real malady is fear of life, not of death.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ
Death is quick. Fear is forever.
RAIN BOJANGLES
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
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Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which ...
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Death, O Mullah - death will come, so live in the Fear of God the Creator.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
What do we say to the Lord of Death?'

'Not today.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress ...
WILL ROGERS
The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.
NATHANIEL LEE
My only fear of death is coming back reincarnated
TUPAC SHAKUR
Death frees from the fear of dying
PAULO COELHO
Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life
NATALIE BABBITT
Death is certain. Nobody can escape it. Then why fear death? Live till you die!
RVM
It's a breath you took too late.
It's a death that's worse than fate.
ELVIS COSTELLO
To fear death is to misunderstand life.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
I desire respect more than I fear death; without respect, I’m dead already.
SCOTTIE SOMERS
I need respect more than I fear death; without respect, I’m dead already.
SCOTTIE SOMERS
In my opinion, anyone who says they have no anxiety at all over experiencing their own physical deat...
R. ALAN WOODS
Life is weaker than death, and death is weaker than love.
KHALIL GIBRAN
The fear of death comes from limited awareness.
DEEPAK CHOPRA
Fear not death; fear not having lived.
NARCISSISMUS DECIMUS MAXIMUS
What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
SYLVIA PLATH
Fear, not living the dream; do not fear death.
SCOTTIE SOMERS
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
FRANCES MOORE LAPPE
LONGEVITY, n. Uncommon extension of the fear of death.
AMBROSE BIERCE
It is a not a fear of death but rather a fear of ending life unfulfilled.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Fear not death, for it is your destiny.
BEN SIRA
I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.
DAVID BLAINE
The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
JIM MORRISON
Do not fear death, for it is natural; but, fear the unnatural act of not living the dream.
SCOTTIE SOMERS
We all fear, not for death but where we will be after death.
KOWSALAPATHY
I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
TUPAC SHAKUR
Do not fear death, but fear of living with no meaningful endeavor.
PETER SAYSOMPHANE
How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
WILL DURANT
People living deeply have no fear of death.
ANAIS NIN
People living deeply have no fear of death.
ANAïS NIN
I know my time will come soon enough, but I will not dwell on it. What is the purpose? We might as w...
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The fear of death never left me; I couldn't get used to the thought; I would still sometimes shake a...
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What shall he fear that does not fear death.
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ANNE LAMOTT
Not afraid to die , but not the fear of death
ROTIK THE MARATHI RAPPER
Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day
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GARY BURTON
I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from play...
GARY BURTON
I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we...
GARY BURTON
Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on thei...
GARY BURTON
There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet pla...
GARY BURTON
It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough...
GARY BURTON
But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynam...
GARY BURTON
Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvisi...
GARY BURTON