mortal fear Quotes

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.

...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them.

Even the stout of heart shrink when they see the approach of death.

And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

My flesh winced, in cowardice, from such a death.

There is nothing like mortal fear to galvanize a friendship.

Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.

The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel.

I looked Death right in the face.

There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than going out of it; and there is not any minute of our lives wherein we may not reasonably expect it. Nay, it is but a momen'ts work, the parting of soul and body. What a shame is it then to stand in fear of anything so long that is over so soon!

Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare. All your sins punished. I can offer you...an escape.

Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.

Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.

I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death, et cetera. The truth? My only thought was: Aaaaggghhhhh!

It [death] chokes you, gags you, but you have to pretend that you're doing just fine, not trembling with this fear because the end is close.

Do mortal fools still measure the increments leading to their deaths, wagering pleasures against costs, persisting in the delusion that deeds have value, that the world and all the gods sit in judgment over every decision made or not made?

God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.

I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.

I need a long and lingering death to make sure that I have time to have a deathbed conversion.

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights That thou would wish thine own heart dry of blood, So in my veins red life might stream again, And thou be conscience-calm'd. See, here it is-- I hold it towards you.

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

Better to flee from death than feel its grip.

Is war perhaps nothing else but a need to face death, to conquer and master it, to come out of it alive -- a peculiar form of denial of our mortality?