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People living deeply have no fear of death.
Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
I do not fear death, as I cherish life too much.
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.
Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.
Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.
The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.
I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear.
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
Maybe I haven't been tested, but I have no fear of death at all. I was with Allen Ginsberg during the last year of his life, and he called all his friends and said, 'I'm on my way out, and it's kind of exciting.' I see it as kind of exciting, too.
Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?
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.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.