If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.

The fear of death stems from the view that it is fearful.

"And after all, one does not die of it." "Die of what?" I asked swiftly. "Of being afraid."

"To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not; it is to think that one knows what one does not know. No one knows with regard to death wheather it is not really the greatest blessing that can happen to man; but people dread it as though they were certain it is the greatest evil." -The Last Days of Socrates

I’m not afraid of my fear. It’s folly, the Christian argument that you should live always in view of your death. The only way to live is to forget that you’re going to die. Death is unimportant. The fear of it should never influence a single action of the wise man. I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I shall not be able to keep myself from regretting bitterly the life that has brought me to such a pass; but I disown that regret. I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

Fear is a poison that binds the minds of men and women to the same stone where Prometheus' liver is devoured forever by the cruel beaks of hungry birds.

For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

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

You are afraid to die; what! are you alive now?

The real malady is fear of life, not of death

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. — MARK TWAIN

The worst of all fears is the fear of living

Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.