Fear of Living Quotes

What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.

We're afraid to live, because we're afraid of dying.

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.

You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.

Grab love of life every day. Because we're all gonna die. It's difficult to live that way. Most people are afraid to. Or can't. I find it very difficult.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death

Action is about living fully. Inaction is the way that we deny life. Inaction is sitting in front of the television every day for years becuase you are afraid to be alive and to take the risk of expressing what you are. Expressing what you are is taking action.

Religion made half of us afraid to die, and the other half afraid to live.

There was a very cautious man Who never laughed or played He never risked, he never tried, He never sang or prayed. And when he on day passed away, His insurance was denied, For since he never really lived, They claimed he never really died. (Anonymous poem)

I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of living.

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all. We discovered that life at any price has no value whatever; that life is nothing without the privileges, the prides, the rights, the joys which make it worth living, and also worth giving. And we also discovered that there is something more hideous, more atrocious than war or than death; and that is to live in fear.

Why do we protect children from life? It's no wonder that we become afraid to live. We're not told what life really is. We're not told that life is joy and wonder and magic and even rapture, if you can get involved enough. We're not told that life is also pain, misery, despair, unhappiness, and tears. I don't know about you, but I don't want to miss any of it. I want to embrace life, and I want to find out what it's all about. I wouldn't want to go through life without knowing what it is to cry.

nothing is so horrifying as the possibility of existing simply because we do not know how to die.

My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.

In one way, I fear all Damascus is a dungeon. Or do you have to live here to appreciate that?

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Perhaps we clutch at life only when we have never lived or trusted it. Then death seems the last and greatest defeat, the end of something never felt.

To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.

Why do so many of us not give ourselves permission to be alive until we are absolutely assured that we will die? ...If we are not in [this present millisecond of life and conscious experience], we are not alive; we are merely thinking our lives. Yet we have seen so many die, looking back over their shoulders at their lives, shaking their heads and muttering in bewilderment, "What was that all about?"

Now if I seem to be afraidTo live the life that I have made in songWell it's just that I've been losing so long.

We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.

Life isn’t worth living if you’re scared all the time.

I'm definitely not afraid of death. It's like I'm looking forward to it, really. I'm probably a little more afraid of living.

You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist.

The fear is simply because you are not living with life, You are living in your mind.