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Antonius Block1 quote
No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness. — Antonius Block · 1957Bertolt Brecht1 quote
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. — Bertolt Brecht · 1931Dr. Nicholas Garrigan1 quote
If you're afraid of dying, shows you have a life worth keeping. — Dr. Nicholas Garrigan · 2006Francis Bacon1 quote
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. — Francis Bacon · 1625Henry Fielding1 quote
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible. — Henry Fielding · 1751J.B. Books1 quote
I'm a dying man, scared of the dark. — J.B. Books · 1976John Dryden1 quote
Death in itself is nothing, but we fear
To be we know not what, we know not where. — John Dryden · 1675Lucretius1 quote
Therefore death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal. — Lucretius · 55 BCMartial1 quote
Neither fear your death's day nor long for it. — Martial · 103Maximus Decimus Meridius1 quote
Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back. — Maximus Decimus Meridius · 2000Mr. Bernstein1 quote
Just old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, you don't look forward to being cured of. — Mr. Bernstein · 1941Sarah Williams1 quote
Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night. — Sarah Williams · 1868Sir Thomas Browne1 quote
The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying. — Sir Thomas Browne · 1658Socrates1 quote
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. — Socrates · 399 BCTuco1 quote
You never had a rope around your neck. Well, I'm going to tell you something. When that rope starts to pull tight, you can feel the devil bite your ass! — Tuco · 1966William Hazlitt1 quote
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern-why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be? — William Hazlitt · 1822William Shakespeare1 quote
The sense of death is most in apprehension,
And the poor beetle that we tread upon
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
As when a giant dies. — William Shakespeare · 1616