"Cowards die many times before their deaths;..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
More by William Shakespeare
More on Fear
“Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.”
“Fearlessness comes with the birth of this new understanding: The only reason life changes as it does is to reveal the secret Goodness underlying those same changes.”
“We fear our neighbor's hostile mood because we are afraid that this mood will lead him to penetrate our secrets.”
More on Death
“Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.”
“Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.”
“To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”