It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
Wherever you are afraid, try to explore, and you will find death hiding somewhere behind. All fear is of death. Death is the only fear source.
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
If you really want to know what motivated me as a young man, it was a fear of death.
I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put if off as long as we can. But it makes very little difference. So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.
To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
My liveliness is based on an incredible fear of death. In order to keep death at bay, I do a lot of "Yah! Yah! Yah!" And death says, "All right. He's too noisy and busy. I'll wait for someone who's sitting quietly, half asleep."
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.
Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible!
Some day,' said Smee, 'the clock will run down, and then he'll get you.' Hook wetted his dry lips, 'Aye,' he said, 'that's the fear that haunts me.
I am accused. I dream of massacres. I am a garden of black and red agonies. I drink them, Hating myself, hating and fearing. And now the world conceives Its end and runs toward it, arms held out in love.
