Mortality And Courage

Table of Contents

• Fear of Death vs. Acceptance
• Courage in the Face of Mortality
• Philosophical Perspectives on Death
• Death as Liberation or Escape
• Other

Fear of Death vs. Acceptance

That's the thing about fear. Death will kill you once, but fear kills you over and over and over, if you let it.

Death will only kill you once; worrying kills you a little every day.

One who fears death never truly lives. One who is not afraid of death never truly dies.

One who is not afraid to die lives, and one who is afraid to live dies.

If I am killed I can die but once. But to live in constant dread is to die over and over again.

Better to die once and for all, than live in continual terror.

Not one of the creatures of blood can escape death. We all face it, and succumb to it. It follows us like a dark shadow. Yet if we live in terror of it, then we do not live at all. Yes we are born alone, and yes we will die alone. But in between, Tae, we live. We know joy.

Death is the fate no one can escape. The question, then, is, How does one die? A person can die like a hero or like a coward. The difference is that the hero can face death without fear, whereas the coward can't.

It's the one who won't be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.

It’s the one who won’t be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.

If I am killed I can die but once,” he is fond of saying, “but to live in constant dread is to die over and over again.

Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.

The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.

Courage in the Face of Mortality

When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.

The man who does not fear death is a strong man. Then, just then, we know that the one who was once gone and has returned, is eternal. In his name we will call it "eternal" at his table, "love," ‘cause only love can expand the mind in distress. In the same way, we know that the hand armed by the sword have no force against the "love" that was gone and have returned, was and will always be, here and now.

Humans are probably the only creatures who know that they will die. They know for certain and yet they keep going. A resilient spirit and a need to survive does not make for cowardice.Salma to Merrick in Simple Conversation

When a man is no longer scared to die he is free to live.

The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.

Death is the fate no one can escape. The question, then, is, How does one die? A person can die like a hero or like a coward. The difference is that the hero can face death without fear, whereas the coward can't.

Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors.

The day, man will find that he never really dies; that his Soul persists beyond death; he will have no more fear of death.

Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life!

Death is the fate no one can escape. The question, then, is, How does one die? A person can die like a hero or like a coward. The difference is that the hero can face death without fear, whereas the coward can’t.

Death is every man’s final critic. To die well you must live bravely.

Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!

Death is largely a threat to those who have not yet lived their life. Odysseus has lived the journeys of both halves of life, and is ready to freely and finally let go.

Philosophical Perspectives on Death

Dying with hopelessness is to die in despair. Hope is to know the certainty of uncertainness. It is not to quantify the uncertainness as this act itself is the act in despair, but it is to know the certainty of the existence of uncertainness. To know how certain is the ‘uncertain’. The temporality of existence is uncertain, and to know the certainty of that uncertainness is to know the inevitability of death.

To Suspect your Own Mortality is to Know the Beginning of Terror; To Learn Irrefutably that you are mortal is to Know the End of Terror.

The paramount terror that plagues humankind is to live a meaningless life of an exile, an incomplete person whom fails to experience the rapture of living in an astonishing manner.

But the living must fear death, or they would not struggle to stay alive. from 'The Fallen Kings.

Nothing makes a man more invincible than to "know" that death is not the end.

I can assure you of one thing, — the more men you see die, the easier it becomes to die yourself; and in my opinion, death may be a torture, but it is not an expiation.

He who fears death either fears the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation. But if thou shalt have no sensation, neither wilt thou feel any harm; and if thou shalt acquire another kind of sensation, thou wilt be a different kind of living being and thou wilt not cease to live.

The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death... just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.

If thou expect death as a friend, prepare to entertain it; if thou expect death as an enemy, prepare to overcome it; death has no advantage, but when it comes a stranger.

The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.

Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.

A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.

If we practice stepping into the unknown, moment by moment, hour by hour, millions of times, then death is just the next step into the unknown. It loses its terror.

Death as Liberation or Escape

It will generally be found that as soon the terrors of live reach the point where they outweigh the terrors of death, a man will put an end to his life.

If death is your lover, you don't got to be afraid ever that he will ever leave you

Even death itself is made wretched by terror and fear.

He’d never thought of death like that, like it’s some sort of other life that you can hope for, dream of. Escape to. That it can rescue you.

He doesn't mind if he dies... indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.

However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance - so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature.

Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was.

There's nothing like the vast, dark Atlantic to remind you of your mortality. But terror can also be exhilarating.

The man who has lived his life totally, intensely, passionately, without any fear - without any fear that has been created in you by the priests for centuries and centuries - if a person lives his life without any fear, authentically, spontaneously, death will not create any fear in him, not at all. In fact, death will come as a great rest. Death will come as the ultimate flowering of life. He will be able to enjoy death too; he will be able to celebrate death too.

Sirs, I have tested your machine. It adds a new terror to life and makes death a long-felt want.

If Death is your father, you don’t ever have to worry about what part of his body the disease will strike next. If Death is your lover, you don’t have to be afraid that he will ever leave you.

In war, her father sometimes said, you might live, you might die. But if you panic, death is the only outcome.

However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance -- so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature.

Other

Those who know how close the connection is between the state of mind of a man-his courage and hope, or lack of them-and the state of immunity of his body will understand that the sudden loss of hope and courage can have a deadly effect. The ultimate cause of my friend's death was that the expected liberation did not come and he was severely disappointed.

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again

If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

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