Whether you like it or not, you’re forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don’t fear death, I’m a fatalist. I believe when it’s your time, that’s it. It’s the hand you’re dealt.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they’re not discriminated on the job.

You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

Always say ‚yes‘ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‚yes‘ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish’d from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish’d from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s futures. And we are all mortal.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he’s a precursor.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

Fear is a spirit that produces a feeling.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.

What an encouraging thought that Jesus – our beloved Husband – can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel’s heart.

To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

Forgotten is forgiven.

Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person’s life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader’s style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.