“Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.”
Childhood and Society (1950), p. 269
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American German-born psychoanalyst & essayist 1902–1994Related quotes
“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
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 7 (p. 101)
“Life… is a paradise to what we fear of death.”
William Shakespeare Measure for Measure
Source: Measure for Measure
“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.
Carl Hiaasen (1953) journalist, columnist and novelist from the United States
Source: Novels, Lucky You (1997), Chapter 5
“The contented have no fear of death.”
Chanakya (-375–-283 BC) Ancient Indian statesman and philosopher
Maxims of Chanakya
Variant: The wicked have no friends.