“Less base the fear of death than fear of life.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 441.
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Edward Young 110
English poet 1683–1765Related quotes
“It is less degrading to fear than to be feared.”
Temer no humilla tanto como ser temido.
Voces (1943)
“Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life”
Variant: dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life.
Source: Tuck Everlasting
“Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.”
Childhood and Society (1950), p. 269
“The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.”
Maxim 511
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth – more than ruin, more even than death.”
Source: 1910s, Why Men Fight https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Why_Men_Fight (1917), pp. 178-179
Context: Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth – more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. It sees man, a feeble speck, surrounded by unfathomable depths of silence; yet it bears itself proudly, as unmoved as if it were lord of the universe. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
“Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.”