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  • FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION.

    Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.203, Penguin
  • Death is very likely the single best invention of life.

    Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA
  • Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.

    Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA
  • No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

    Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA
  • Learning appears as a way of staying young, perhaps of staying alive, and also as a way of growing up, perhaps facing death.

    Growing Up   Alive   Way  
  • Why exactly are we so frightened of death that we avoid looking at it altogether? Somewhere, deep down, we know we cannot avoid facing death forever. We know, in Milarepa's words: "This thing called 'corpse' we dread so much is living with us here and now."

    Death   Forever   Dying  
    Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.25, Harper Collins
  • Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

    Life   Death   Adventure  
  • Facing death calmly is praiseworthy only if one faces it alone. Death together is no longer death, even for unbelievers. The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning. When love is our whole life, what difference is there between living together and dying together ?

  • Life will undertake to separate us, and we must each set off in search of our own path, our own destiny or our own way of facing death.

    Destiny   Way   Path  
    Paulo Coelho (2013). “Manuscript Found in Accra”, p.11, HarperCollins UK
  • You are facing death and danger and competition, but at any moment, you can decide to have a fearless mindset.

    Source: allhiphop.com
  • And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

    God   Father   Men  
    Thomas Babbington Macaulay, “Horatius”
  • I have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour by non-violently facing death may and ought to do so by violently dealing with the oppressor. He who can do neither of the two is a burden. He has no business to be the head of a family. He must either hide himself, or must rest content to live for ever in helplessness and be prepared to crawl like a worm at the bidding of a bully.

    Two   Bully   Bidding  
    Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House
  • Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

    Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA
  • A physicist friend of mine once said that in facing death, he drew some consolation from the reflection that he would never again have to look up the word "hermeneutics" in the dictionary.

    Steven Weinberg (2012). “Facing Up”, p.141, Harvard University Press
  • 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.

    Life   Fear   Failure  
    Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA
  • As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

    Codice Trivulziano 281
  • If a general and his men fear death and are apprehensive over possible defeat, then they will unavoidably suffer defeat and death. But if they make up their minds, from the general down to the last footsoldier, not to think of living but only of standing in one place and facing death together, then, though they may have no other thought than meeting death, they will instead hold on to life and gain victory.

    Men   Thinking   Mind  
    "Yoshida Shoin Zenshu" by Yoshida Shoin, vol. I, 1938.
  • Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. True courage is about facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right. ~Amber

    Mean   Thinking   Talking  
  • I tried to think about these two issues very freely. With sex, I think I can manage with that. With death, this is a more difficult theme for me. I'm not a believer, even though I'm baptized. I don't practice. I don't believe in God, so I feel very alone facing death. What I discovered is that the only way to recognize death is if you are part of life, if you are part of sexual pleasure, if you link it with sexual pleasure.

    Sex   Believe   Thinking  
    "Pedro Almodóvar Talks I’M SO EXCITED, the Role of Sex and Death in His Work, Making the “Gayest Film” He’s Done in 20 Years, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 24, 2013.
  • We are all dying and we all have some anxiety about it. And so people are more scared of dying than they are of drugs. If we can show that people who are facing death can be assisted with psychedelics that's a powerful message.

  • You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

    Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA
  • Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.

    Pain   Heart   Grieving  
    Rabindranath Tagore (2011). “The Heart of God: Prayers of Rabindranath Tagore”, p.47, Tuttle Publishing
  • Death is a vast mystery, but there are two things we can say about it: It is absolutely certain that we will die, and it is uncertain when or how we will die. The only surety we have, then, is this uncertainty about the hour of our death, which we seize on as the excuse to postpone facing death directly. We are like children who cover their eyes in a game of hide and seek and think that no one can see them.

    Death   Children   Eye  
    Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.25, Harper Collins
  • Kaz came to Switzerland where I was teaching to share with me [Heart Sutra] wondrous insight. There he and I worked on this new translation - with my part being to help render it into a verse form that would be good to chant. Since I have worked with many dying people over the years and often share the Heart Sutra with them, I found this new version that we created together to be so much more accessible to those who were facing death.

    Teaching   Heart   Years  
  • To almost no one's surprise, Astrid said, "Dune, by Frank Herbert. 'I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that bring total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the Fear has gone there will be nothing.'" She and Lana together spoke the last phrase of the incantation. "'Only I will remain.

    Fear   Eye   Past  
  • For me, the most powerful way to write about something is through the absence of it. Rather than writing about what it was to become a new mother, I wrote, for example, a father facing death and addressing his estranged son about the regrets of his relationship.

    "Nicole Krauss’ Plot Thickens". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2010.
  • I often speak to returning service people about their experiences while serving. Whether in 1915 or 2005, the core issue of facing death on a daily basis remains.

    Issues   People   Speak  
    Source: www.bookbrowse.com
  • For the gift of life, the only true thanks was in living fully, and facing death with honor.

    Janet Morris, Chris Morris (1990). “Storm Seed”, Baen Books
  • I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

    Frank Herbert (2010). “Heretics Of Dune: The Fifth Dune Novel”, p.10, Hachette UK
  • Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

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