fear of death

phobia

Chuck Norris

is important to embrace. One should let it take over to the point that one comes to the realization that one does not die because one was never born.

If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over fear, ghosts, pains, transience, dissolution, and all. And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise... you don't die because you were never born. You had just forgotten who you are. Alan Watts

is often attributable to one having not yet lived.

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn't yet lived. Franz Kafka

is not really the fear of death, but the fear of the wrong kind of death.

It is the wrong kind of Death we fear, not Death itself.

is never the fear of Death... it is the fear of untimely Death.

Goethe's Faust: the hero falls when he 'lets up a bit'. Life is predicated, not on the fear of Death, but on the fear of untimely Death.

is less powerful a fear for the Englishman than the fear of contempt.

An Englishman fears contempt more than death.

People who are afraid of death are usually afraid of life.

's overcoming is also a triumph over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.

Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.

is the biggest deceit of life. How many sufferings had to endure the one that died young?

The fear of death is the biggest deceit of life. How many sufferings had to endure the one that died young?

fear of death, n.All

fear of death