"No one knows whether death may not..." - Quote by Plato
No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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“Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.”
“I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of time.”
“I’ve kissed death a thousand times before”
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“When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'”
“The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears.”
“See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath!He that but fears the thing he would not know,Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes,That what he feared is chanced.”