Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

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.

Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

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

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit then nothing can be more redemptive.

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.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.