Saul Williams Quotes

We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage, but that - don't go to the funeral before the day of the funeral.

I am not afraid to die. I simply do not want to.

I'm not scared of death anymore.

I don't want to die, but I'm not afraid to.

Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying's as natural as living. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live.

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

He that fears death loses the joys of life.

I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear.

In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

When you're scared, you're still hanging on to life. When you're ready to die, you let it go. A sort of emptying out occurs, a giving up on the world that seems oddly familiar even if you've never done it before.

Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I think there is, in our society, there is a growing fear of death, a fear of the circumstances in which I might die, a fear I might be over-treated or under-treated. But fear is always a bad guide. Death is part of life.

I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death.

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.