Fear of dying. Fear of a painful death. Fear of dying alone and uncared for. Fear of not knowing when and how we die. All these fears deserve to be noticed. Acknowledged. Maybe even celebrated as pointers to shift our perception.
Fear quotations are a great opportunity to explore our own fears around death and dying. What is it that I believe in my deepest thoughts?
Once we have found those beliefs, we can decide to hold on to them, steadfastly. Or we can decide to try on different one. The fear quotations below are a great opportunity to try on different beliefs.
There is quite a range of perspectives gathered on one page. For your perusal. For our exploration. For the opportunity to try something new.
To fear the worst oft cures the worse.
- William Shakespeare - - Troilus and Cressida -
The only thing that burns in hell is the part of us that will not let go of our life: our memories, our attachments.
They burn them all away, but they are not punishing us, they are freeing our soul.
If we are frightened of dying and we are holding on, we will see devils tearing our life away.
If we have made our peace, then the devils are really angels freeing us from the earth.
- Meister Eckhart -
For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.
- Elizabeth Kübler-Ross -
I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal - and soon they'll forget my number.
- Edith Armstrong -
The mind can only do one thing at a time.
- Claire Collins -
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.
- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar -
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain -
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
- Alfred Hitchcock -
Who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own Self in all beings, loses all fear.
- The Upanishads -
The man that runs away lives to die another day.
- A. E. Housman -
To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not.
For it is to think one knows what one does not know.
No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings.
And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.
- Socrates -
Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
- William Shakespeare - - King Henry the Sixth -
Fear is the process of the mind in the struggle of becoming. In becoming good there is the fear of evil; in becoming complete, there is the fear of loneliness.
- Krishnamurti -
If people know that they are respected as part of the human family … the ending of life can be a final fulfillment of all that has gone before.
As the modern hospice began by listening to patients let one patient have the last word:
“Loneliness is not so much a matter of being alone as of not belonging”.
- Dame Cicely Saunders -
The more we know, the more fully we trust, for we shall feel with utter certainty that we and our dead are alike in the hands of perfect Love.
- C. W. Leadbeater -
I myself feel, and also tell other Buddhists that the question of Nirvana will come later. There is not much hurry.
If in day to day life we lead a good life, honestly, with love, with compassion, with less selfishness, then automatically it will lead to Nirvana.
- H.H. The 14th Dalai Lama -
Many stars cannot be concealed by a small cloud.
- Maori Proverb -
We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.
Fear of dying. Fear of a painful death. Fear of dying alone and uncared for. Fear of not knowing when and how we die. All these fears deserve to be noticed. Acknowledged. Maybe even celebrated as pointers to shift our perception.
