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“I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome, Pandora's box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.”

Men Feels Death Dies One Day Anxiety Boxes Decades Compassionate Psychiatrist Confronting Pandora Dealing With Death Pandora's Box

Author:Irvin D. Yalom

“The will to power is the will to ecstasy is the will to surrender is the will to submit and, in extremis, to die. Or to put it another way, the rage to attain a freedom and happiness one's psyche cannot accept creates enormous anxiety and ends in self-punishing despair.”

Way Ends Self Dies Accepting Despair Anxiety Rage Surrender Enormous Ecstasy Submit Another Way Will Power Freedom And Happiness

Author:Ellen Willis

“I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.”

Dies Given Worry Dying Months Anxiety Death And Dying

Author:B. F. Skinner

“Every day His servants are dying modestly and peacefully--not a word of victory on their lips; but Christ's deep triumph in their hearts--watching the slow progress of their own decay, and yet so far emancipated from personal anxiety that they are still able to think and plan for others, not knowing that they are doing any great thing. They die, and the world hears nothing of them; and yet theirs was the completest victory. They came to the battle field, the field to which they had been looking forward all their lives, and the enemy was not to be found. There was no foe to fight with.”

Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton

“When desire dies, fear is born.”

Desire Dies Born Anxiety Desire To Achieve Worldly Wisdom

Book:The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom

“Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.”

Men Dies Grief Anxiety Constant Battlefields

Author:Bill Vaughan

“The statesman, lawyer, merchant, man of trade Pants for the refuge of some rural shade, Where all his long anxieties forgot Amid the charms of a sequester'd spot, Or recollected only to gild o'er And add a smile to what was sweet before, He may possess the joys he thinks he sees, Lay his old age upon the lap of ease, Improve the remnant of his wasted span. And having lived a trifler, die a man.”

Thinking Men May Long Age Joy Dies Sweet Anxiety Trade Lays Add Lawyer Old Age Spots Ease Charm Retirement Shade Pants Refuge Lap Statesmen Merchants Remnants

Book:Poems, with a memoir of the author

Source: Poems, with a memoir of the author

“He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.”

Ifs Order Dies Opinion Depends Honor Anxiety Strive Reputation Schemes Inconsistent

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“To be a poet is to have an appetite for a certain anxiety which, when tasted among the swirling sum of things existent or forfeit, causes, as the taste dies, joy.”

Joy Certain Dies Causes Poet Taste Anxiety Appetite Forfeit

Author:Rene Char

“If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.”

Ifs Persons Has Beens Might Motivational Success Dies Business Courage Knowing Anxiety Might Have Been Overcoming Fear Self Empowerment Great Person

Author:Robert H. Schuller

“Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.”

World Life Trying Ends Dies Hurt Forever Possibility Anxiety Confusion Confused It Hurts Amen Anything Is Possible

Book:The Brain-Dead Megaphone

Source: The Brain-Dead Megaphone

“In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten.”

Death Dies Anxiety Depth Forgotten

Author:Paul Tillich

“You're not going to die. Here's the white-hot truth: if you go bankrupt, you'll still be okay. If you lose the gig, the lover, the house, you'll still be okay. If you sing off-key, get beat by the competition, have your heart shattered, get fired...it's not going to kill you. Ask anyone who's been through it.”

Source: The Fire Starter Sessions: A Soulful + Practical Guide to Creating Success on Your Own Terms

“As soon as one knows one is going to die, childhood is over.... So one can be grown up at seven. Then, I believe most human beings forget what they have understood, recover another sort of childhood that can last all their lives. It is not a true childhood but a kind of forgetting. Desires and anxieties are there, preventing you from having access to the essential truth.”

Knows Believe Humans Kind Lasts Desire Dies I Believe Human Beings Forget Childhood Essentials Anxiety Understood Philosophical Seven Access Preventing

Author:Eugene Ionesco

“I'm unbelievably claustrophobic, and I have really bad anxiety. There were a few moment when I was very dramatic and thought, 'I'm not going to live through this. I'm going to hyperventilate and just die. Right here in jail.'”

Moments Dies Anxiety Dramatic Jail

Author:Shannen Doherty

“Many people are shrinking from the future and from participation in the movement toward a new, expanded reality. And, like homesick travelers abroad, they are focusing their anxieties on home. The reasons are not far to seek. We are at a turning point in human history. . . . We could turn our attention to the problems that going to the Moon certainly will not solve ... But I think this would be fatal to our future. . . . A society that no longer moves forward does not merely stagnate; it begins to die.”

“Silence is difficult and arduous; it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a book, or by listening to a talk, or by sitting together, or by retiring into a wood or a monastery. I am afraid none of these things will bring about this silence. This silence demands intense psychological work. You have to be burningly aware - aware of your speech, aware of your snobbishness, aware of your fears, your anxieties, your sense of guilt. And when you die to all that, then out of that dying comes the beauty of silence.”

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Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Why worry one's head over a thing that is inevitable? Why die before one's death?”

Dies Worry Anxiety Inevitable

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India

“Well, unless you've suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it's hard to explain it. But you go on stage knowing you're actually physically going to die. You will keel over and die.”

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Author:Donny Osmond

“We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.”

People Way Dies Anxiety Existential Cover Ups

Author:Joko Beck