“Only those are fit to live who are not afraid of dying.”

“He realized now that to be afraid of this death he was staring at with animal terror meant to be afraid of life. Fear of dying justified a limitless attachment to what is alive in man. And all those who had not made the gestures necessary to live their lives, all those who feared and exalted impotence — they were afraid of death because of the sanction it gave to a life in which they had not been involved. They had not lived enough, never having lived at all.”

“He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”

“What the matter, Zarek? You afraid to die? (Thanatos)
Dying’s easy. It’s living that’s hard. (Zarek)”

“I used to be afraid of dying. Now I’m afraid of not living. There’s a difference. We go through life planning for a future, but sometimes that future never comes.”

“Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.”

“"All living things are afraid to die."
"No, you're exactly wrong, the only truly alive beings are those unafraid to die."”

“When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in.”

“Mocking the wisdom that comes with age is a fit sport only for those who expect never to attain much of it themselves.”

“Men who are afraid live longer.”