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.

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we’ve always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

Life loves the liver of it.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren’t able to live in the place you called home.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

I don’t think anybody in America ought to be scared.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the ‚light‘ and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

I’m not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

When I die, I’m gonna leave my body to science fiction.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.