— Edward Abbey American author and essayist 1927 - 1989
Misattributed
„Any person who pursues human rights in Iran must live with fear from birth to death, but I have learned to overcome my fear.“
From 1999 interview.
Noted in the October 2003 BBC News profile of Ebadi. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3181992.stm (retrieved Oct. 15, 2008)
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Shirin Ebadi2
iranische Juristin und Menschenrechtsaktivistin 1947Ähnliche Zitate
— Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910
Not by Twain, but from Edward Abbey's A Voice Crying In The Wilderness (1989).
Misattributed
„Before you conquer the mountain, you must learn to overcome your fear.“
— Isabel Allende, buch City of the Beasts
Quelle: City of the Beasts
„To overcome the fear of death it is necessary to accept that we all have to die“
— Baba Hari Dass master yogi, author, builder, commentator of Indian spiritual tradition 1923 - 2018
Silence Speaks, from the chalkboard of Baba Hari Dass, 1977
Kontext: Q: What can I do to overcome my fear of death? A: Attachment to the body causes fear of death. It is the strongest attachment. Even a newborn infant has this attachment. To overcome the fear of death it is necessary to accept that we all have to die. (p.39)
— John Donne English poet 1572 - 1631
VI. Metuit. The physician is afraid
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
„In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882
— Julie Anne Peters American writer 1952
Quelle: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
— Baba Hari Dass master yogi, author, builder, commentator of Indian spiritual tradition 1923 - 2018
Quelle: Silence Speaks, from the chalkboard of Baba Hari Dass (1977), p.39
Kontext: Q: What can I do to overcome my fear of death?
— Louis Farrakhan leader of the Nation of Islam 1933
Louis Farrakhan, Leader of the "Nation of Islam", Declares His Support of Iran's Nuclear Program and Claims that Since the U.S. Administration Ignored His Warnings, "the Time for the Chastisement of Allah Is Here" http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=1407 (March 2007)
„Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.“
— Hunter S. Thompson American journalist and author 1937 - 2005
„I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.“
— Anaïs Nin writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903 - 1977
„People living deeply have no fear of death.“
— Anaïs Nin writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903 - 1977
The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939)
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
„Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.“
— Gautama Buddha philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism -563 - -483 v.Chr
As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) edited by Larry Chang, p. 193
This is actually a pithy modern-day 'summary' of the "Abhaya Sutta" (AN 4.184). It appears in "Buddha’s Little Instruction Book" by Jack Kornfield (p88).
Unclassified
— Oliver Lodge British physicist 1851 - 1940
Raymond, p. 298 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t80k3mq4s;view=1up;seq=340
Raymond, or Life and Death (1916)
— Nikos Kazantzakis Greek writer 1883 - 1957
Odysseus, Book VIII, line 560
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)
„Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life“
— Natalie Babbitt, buch Tuck Everlasting
Variante: dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life.
Quelle: Tuck Everlasting
— Andrea Lewis (writer) Microsoft employee
“The Empire Pool” Conclave: A Journal of Character, Issue 5, (Spring, 2013)
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