Top 1200 Afraid Of Death Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That's what makes a leader. To be not afraid to step out and go over the frontline. To stare darkness right in the face.

I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.

Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it.

What I am afraid of is the first thing I was ever aware of being afraid of and what I have told my daughter countless times she need not fear: being alone in the dark. It is a small prison of emotion from which there is no escape. It is also, in its own way, a shattering revelation.

Death brings release & removal from all evil, every tragedy & all difficulty. Death is not an enemy.

From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.

I'm not a fan of the death penalty. At some level I think killing is wrong, but I don't have sympathy for most of the people sentenced - I'm not a passionate anti-death penalty person. In truth, given all the other problems of the justice system, the numbers are so small, I think there are bigger fish to fry. Ironically, in terms of mental health and care, death row is probably the best prison situation to be in. There's a little more public eye on that, to ensure at least minimal levels of official treatment are actually given to death row prisoners.

Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.

Death is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death.

A true believer does not fear physical death, rather he fears the death of his heart

They were afraid of your authentic love, because authentic love is beyond their control.You are possessed by it. You? are not the possessor, you are the possessed. And every society wants you to be in control. The society is afraid of your wild nature, it is afraid of your naturalness, so from the very beginning it starts cutting your wings. And the most basic thing which is dangerous in you is the possibility of love, because if you are possessed by love you can go even against the whole world.

Let me die a youngman's death not a clean and in-between- the-sheets, holy-water death.

The death penalty issue is obviously a divisive one. But whether one is for or against, you can not deny the basic illogic - if we know the system is flawed, if we know there are innocent people on Death Row, then until the system is reformed, should we not abandon the death penalty to protect those who are innocent?

What is a man's life but a prelude to his death? And what is death but a long sleep, a most welcome forgetfulness.

Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death.

This isn't a dig on journalists, but people like to write about the 'death of blank.' The death of something.

That was indeed to live -- at one bold swoop to wrest from darkling death the best that death to life can give.

Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.

I think a lot about death more than life, because we're going towards death.

Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

Facing death calmly is praiseworthy only if one faces it alone. Death together is no longer death, even for unbelievers. The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning. When love is our whole life, what difference is there between living together and dying together ?

It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

"Death by love is fairer by far than death by illness", said Amenhotep III.

The possibility of sending an innocent person to their death is a reason why I'm against the death penalty.

Most people think of death as the end, when in fact, death can be the beginning.

Through the air floated only important words, and Flajsman said to himself that love has but one true measure, and that is death. At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love.

From an eternal perspective, the only death that is truly premature is the death of one who is not prepared to meet God.

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.

We have this desire for that balance between death and life or death and joy. We want to believe that something we can also have.

The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.

Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves.

Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?

He lifted his eyes to the girl. She looked afraid. She always looked afraid, these days. The world was a scary place. She said: "Take me with you." He woke up.

There's been an open attack by the U.S. government, an immoral attack, to try and prevent Venezuela from being freely elected to a post in the Security Council. The imperium is afraid of truth, is afraid of independent voices. It calls us extremists, but they are the extremists.

Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was.

The first night was awful because I was so afraid, and I was never more afraid because it was going out of my character to be outgoing and to be vulnerable and to be out there and onstage. My hands were sweaty and I couldn't swallow, and I drank a bottle of wine to calm my nerves.

Preparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do. Thinking about death clarifies your life.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.

I think sometimes that people think brave means not being afraid, which of course it doesn't mean that at all. It means that you're afraid, but you move past that and do it anyway, do what you think is right.

Some children are afraid to die because their parents are afraid to die. My own children have come to understand that it's totally okay with me if they die. They don't have to live for my sake.

How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.

I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!

Sex and death. Two things that come but once in my lifetime, but at least after death you're not nauseous.

Death means a lot of money, honey. Death can really make you look like a star.

The certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour of death is a source of grief throughout our life.

Guess now who holds thee?'--'Death,' I said. But, there, The silver answer rang, . . . 'Not Death, but Love.

I am afraid of a lot of things. A dog. I could be afraid of a dog that's upset, for example. And on the tennis courts, maybe on the outside I look fearless, but on the inside, I'm scared. There's not one player in the world who isn't nervous before matches. Especially important matches.

The way we deny death says something about how we live our lives, doesn't it? At least in Sweden or Scandinavia, you don't have to search further back in time than maybe three generations to find another way to relate to death. People then had a different, closer relationship with death; at least it was like that in the countryside.

Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.

For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.

When death occurs, death as you know it, the universe embraces you and takes you to its heart.

That's one of the reasons I'm vegan. Death terrifies me. I don't want to impose death on anyone else.

It doesn't matter that I can't remember the details any longer: death happened to her. Death happens to all of us.

I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.

I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.