Edward Young Quotes

I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.

My day-to-day local issues are rooted in an underlying fear of death.

To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.

I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death!

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.

I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.

The Fear of Death often proves Mortal.

Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.

Every fear is fear of death.

Death is not the enemy; living in constant fear of it is.

A small fact: You are going to die....does this worry you?

In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten.

My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.

I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's what made me desperate to get the most out of life.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.