“Less base the fear of death than fear of life.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 441.
Pearls of Wisdom
“Less base the fear of death than fear of life.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 441.
“Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life”
Natalie Babbitt book Tuck Everlasting
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.”
Erik H. Erikson book Childhood and Society
Childhood and Society (1950), p. 269
Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.”
Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
Book II, ch. 1 http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/discourses.2.two.html <br class="br">Discourses <br class="br">Variant: For death or pain is not formidable, but the fear of pain or death.
Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist
Misattributed
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Not by Twain, but from Edward Abbey's A Voice Crying In The Wilderness (1989).
Misattributed
“No evil comes from the fear of hell, no good comes from the promise of heaven.”
Ron English (1959) American artist
Death and the Eternal Forever (2014)
“He who fears not death fears not a threat.”
Pierre Corneille book Le Cid
Qui ne craint point la mort ne craint point les menaces.
Don Gomès, act II, scene i.
Le Cid (1636)