“Life inspires more dread than death — it is life which is the great unknown.”
Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay
A Short History of Decay (1949)
“Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.”
— Ian Fleming, book The Spy Who Loved Me
Source: The Spy Who Loved Me
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English author, journalist and naval intelligence officer 1908–1964Related quotes
“So true it is that love of money alone is incapable of dreading death by the sword.”
Usque adeo solus ferrum mortemque timere
auri nescit amor.
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus book Pharsalia
Book III, line 118 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“This Shewing was quick and life-like, and horrifying and dreadful, sweet and lovely.”
Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress
The First Revelation, Chapter 7
Context: This Shewing was quick and life-like, and horrifying and dreadful, sweet and lovely. And of all the sight it was most comfort to me that our God and Lord that is so reverend and dreadful, is so homely and courteous: and this most fulfilled me with comfort and assuredness of soul.
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Source: Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change
Peter Wessel Zapffe (1899–1990) Norwegian philosopher, mountaineer, and author
Source: The Last Messiah (1933), To Be a Human Being https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4m6vvaY-Wo&t=1110s (1989–90)
Horatio Nelson (1758–1805) Royal Navy Admiral
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1790s
Context: The lives of all are in the hands of Him who knows best whether to preserve it or no, and to His will do I resign myself. My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied, and, if anything happens to me recollect death is a debt we must all pay, and whether now or in a few years hence can be but of little consequence.
“The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 511
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“And death?
I don’t fear death.
I dread the absence of it.”
Robert Charles Wilson (1953) author
Divided by Infinity (p. 195)
The Perseids and Other Stories (2000)
“All ends are temporary and all life is born from death.”
Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden
Source: Evil Thirst
“With rebellion, awareness is born.”
Albert Camus book The Rebel
As quoted in The Estranged God : Modern Man's Search for Belief (1966) by Anthony T. Padovano, p. 109
The Rebel (1951)