“If I wanted death, Edward would give it to me. Because we both understand that it isn't death that we fear. It's living.”
Source: Obsidian Butterfly
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“I fear that a life of death has made me numb to both.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.”
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“In every hedge and ditch both day and night
We fear our death, of every leafe affright.”
Second Week, First Day, Part iii. Compare: "The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies", William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act iii. Sc. 1.
La Seconde Semaine (1584)
“Oh! Death would take so much from us, how should we not fear?”
From De Profundis
Context: But we of the rich plain of sweet airs and pure,
Oh! Death would take so much from us, how should we not fear?

“I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love”

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 17.