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The anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the life instinct. ~ Melanie Klein
Death Anxiety quotes by Melanie Klein
Dying is more terrifying than actual death. ~ Stefan Bolea
Death Anxiety quotes by Stefan Bolea
Use of masturbation as a way of soothing yourself to ward off death anxiety so you can fall asleep. ~ Irvin D. Yalom
Death Anxiety quotes by Irvin D. Yalom
Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude. ~ Irvin D. Yalom
Death Anxiety quotes by Irvin D. Yalom
Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One's own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one's sphere of control. There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety. ~ Irvin D. Yalom
Death Anxiety quotes by Irvin D. Yalom
Sonnet of Fidelity
Above all to my love I'll be attentive
First and always with care and so much
That even when facing the greatest enchantment
By love be more enchanted my thoughts.
I want to live it through in each vain moment
And in its honor I'll spread my song
And laugh my laughter and cry my tears
When you are sad or when you are content.
And thus when later comes looking for me
Who knows the death anxiety of the living
Who knows the loneliness end of all lovers
I'll be able to say to myself of the love I had :
Be not immortal since it is flame
But be infinite while it lasts. ~ Vinicius De Moraes
Death Anxiety quotes by Vinicius De Moraes

Who knows what death, anxiety of the living,
Who knows what loneliness, end of the loving
I could say to myself of the love (I had):
Let it not be immortal, since it is flame
But let it be infinite while it lasts. ~ Vinicius De Moraes
Death Anxiety quotes by Vinicius De Moraes
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. ~ Irvin D. Yalom
Death Anxiety quotes by Irvin D. Yalom
This association of the idea of the orgasm and the idea of dying is a universal one. On the basis of these typical clinical examples, we arrive at the following conclusion: the striving after non-existence, nirvana, death, is identical with the striving after orgastic release, i.e., the most essential experience of the living organism. Thus, an idea of death stemming from the actual demise of the organism does not and cannot exist, because an idea can reflect only what has already been experienced. No one, however, has ever experienced his or her own death. ~ Wilhelm Reich
Death Anxiety quotes by Wilhelm Reich
The death anxiety of many people is fueled ... by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential. Many people are in despair because their dreams didn't come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true. A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety. ~ Irvin D. Yalom
Death Anxiety quotes by Irvin D. Yalom
Our deep irrational feelings of death anxiety have been attributed to multiple sources. In part, they may arise from evolved self-protection mechanisms or survival responses of being a victim of predators. They might, conversely, stem from unconscious fear (or guilt) of retribution resulting from our own acts of harming or predation. According to existential psychologists, the most powerful form of death anxiety comes from our general ability to anticipate the future, coupled with conscious anticipation of inevitable personal demise. ~ Richard J. Borden
Death Anxiety quotes by Richard J. Borden
Awareness of freedom and responsibility creates anxiety, which is also referred to as anguish or angst. Aspects of romantic attachments can relieve anxieties. For example, Mario Mikulincer et al. argue that loving relationships can act as a "death-anxiety buffering mechanism", since the sense of security, protection, comfort, self-esteem, and social validation that close relationships provide may serve as defensive devices with respect to existential anxiety about the threat of mortality. ~ Skye Cleary
Death Anxiety quotes by Skye Cleary
more commonly death anxiety surfaces in nightmares. A ~ Irvin D. Yalom
Death Anxiety quotes by Irvin D. Yalom
Come to believe that the fear of death is always greatest in those who feel that they have not lived their life fully. A good working formula is: the more unlived life, or unrealized potential, the greater one's death anxiety. ~ Irvin D. Yalom
Death Anxiety quotes by Irvin D. Yalom
I name you today, heart fears. I am small, but you are smaller. You will not stop me. You have a voice, fears, and I must listen, but then I will open my heart. I will love you right to death. ~ Anna White
Death Anxiety quotes by Anna White
Your desires are immense, almost infinite. Because of your desires life becomes a competition, and wherever there is competition, there is anxiety and angst; and at the end everybody is aware deep down there is death. ~ Rajneesh
Death Anxiety quotes by Rajneesh
Just when I despaired -- she was there, filling me as a melody fills a cottage. I was with her, running beside the Acis when we were a child. I knew the ancient villa moated by a dark lake, the view through the dusty windows of the belvedere, and the secret space in the odd angle between two rooms where we sat at noon to read by candlelight. I knew the life of the Autarch's court, where poison waited in a diamond cup. I learned what it was for one who had never seen a cell or felt a whip to be a prisoner of the torturers, what dying meant, and death.

I learned that I had been more to her than I had ever guessed, and at last fell into a sleep in which my dreams were all of her. Not memories merely -- memories I had possessed in plenty before. I held her poor, cold hands in mine, and I no longer wore the rags of an apprentice, nor the fuligin of a journeyman. We were one, naked and happy and clean, and we knew that she was no more and that I still lived, and we struggled against neither of those things, but with woven hair read from a single book and talked and sang of other matters. ~ Gene Wolfe
Death Anxiety quotes by Gene Wolfe
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. ~ Huey P. Newton
Death Anxiety quotes by Huey P. Newton
Why, then you go on to Death Row at state prison and just
enjoy all that good food until it's time to ride the lightning. It won't be
long. ~ Stephen King
Death Anxiety quotes by Stephen King
Death is what makes life possible. It's the balance, Meridian. There always has to be balance. ~ Amber Kizer
Death Anxiety quotes by Amber Kizer
No assurance, no platitude, no promise of God's mercy. Just a stark reminder that death was part of life. She offered me nothing but a way to accept whatever came-Let life be life. There was a quiet relinquishment in the words. ~ Sue Monk Kidd
Death Anxiety quotes by Sue Monk Kidd
There is no death, daughter.
People die only when we forget them. ~ Isabel Allende
Death Anxiety quotes by Isabel Allende
The death of Nighteyes gutted me. I walked wounded through my life in the days that followed, unaware of just how mutilated I was. I was like the man who complains of the itching of his severed leg. The itching distracts from the immense knowledge that one will forever after hobble through life. ~ Robin Hobb
Death Anxiety quotes by Robin Hobb
The power of her magic had snatched me from death. But it was the power of my own love which would give me the life I wanted. ~ Cameron Dokey
Death Anxiety quotes by Cameron Dokey
They didn't even had the authority to choose an alcoholic beverage. They couldn't be deciding who deserved to live or die. ~ Maggie Stiefvater
Death Anxiety quotes by Maggie Stiefvater
But here I should imagine the most terrible part of the whole punishment is, not the bodily pain at all - but the certain knowledge that in an hour, then in ten minutes, then in half a minute, then now - this very instant - your soul must quit your body and that you will no longer be a man - and that this is certain, certain! ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Death Anxiety quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grief grinds slowly; it devours all the time it needs. ~ Long Litt Woon
Death Anxiety quotes by Long Litt Woon
Somebody said the prospect of eminent death has a wonderful clarifying effect on the mind. And I don't know if that's true, but I do think it probably causes some changes, some evolution in the way a person works. But on a day-by-day basis, I just still enjoy doing what I'm doing. ~ Stephen King
Death Anxiety quotes by Stephen King
Anna, I only know this: when it is your turn to die - my turn, anyone's - when it is time for you to let go of one life and reach out for another, you will be left with no choice but to hurl yourself willingly into the mother arms of transfiguration. It's not an end. It's a beginning. ~ Jill Alexander Essbaum
Death Anxiety quotes by Jill Alexander Essbaum
When my mother was alive, I was the daughter first and everything else second ... That's what made her death so painful. My mother was a big part of my life and a big reason why I did what I did. I've always derived a lot of energy from being a good daughter ... When she was gone, I suddenly thought, Why am I doing this? For whom? Losing my mom was really hard on me. I remember going to the Academy Awards shortly after she died and thinking, Well I'm all dressed up, and my mother won't see me. ~ Goldie Hawn
Death Anxiety quotes by Goldie Hawn
Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set. ~ Laurence Sterne
Death Anxiety quotes by Laurence Sterne
We continue the chain of generations and, knowingly or not, willingly or unwillingly, we pay debts of the past: as long as we have not cleared the slate, an "invisible loyalty" impels us to repeat and repeat a moment of incredible joy or unbearable sorrow, an injustice or a tragic death. Or its echo. ~ Anne Ancelin Schutzenburger
Death Anxiety quotes by Anne Ancelin Schutzenburger
All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and
not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms
of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence. ~ Eckhart Tolle
Death Anxiety quotes by Eckhart Tolle
Yes, if we care enough and dare enough, we will experience disappointment. But in those moments when disappointment is washing over us and we're desperately trying to get our heads and hearts around what is or is not going to be, the death of our expectations can be painful beyond measure. ~ Brene Brown
Death Anxiety quotes by Brene Brown
Here lies a gentleman bold
Who was so very brave
He went to lengths untold,
And on the brink of the grave
Death had on him no hold.
By the world he set small store
He frightened it to the core
Yet somehow, by Fate's plan,
Though he'd lived a crazy man,
When he died he was sane once more. ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Death Anxiety quotes by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Stream of Source Energy flows to you and through you - and that it is you. This Stream flowed before the physical Being that you know as you was born, and it will continue to flow once the physical Being that you know as you experiences what you call "death." Every living thing, animal, human, or plant, experiences that which is called death, with no exception. Spirit, which is who we really are, is eternal. So what death must be is but a changing of the perspective of that eternal Spirit. If ~ Esther Hicks
Death Anxiety quotes by Esther Hicks
A dojo [pracice hall] is a miniature cosmos where we make contact with ourselves - our fears, anxieties, reactions, and habits. It is an arena of confined conflict where we confront an opponent who is not an opponent but rather a partner engaged in helping us understand ourselves more fully. ~ Joe Hyams
Death Anxiety quotes by Joe Hyams
A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a slip of paper and take the judgment of his friends on them. He should never leave such a thing to the last hour of his life, and trust to an intellectual spurt at the last moment to enable him to say something smart with his latest gasp and launch into eternity with grandeur. ~ Mark Twain
Death Anxiety quotes by Mark Twain
Nobody can tell what is right and what is wrong; what is righteous and what is evil. Even if there is a god and I had his teachings right before me, I would think it through and decide if that was right or wrong myself. ~ Tsugumi Ohba
Death Anxiety quotes by Tsugumi Ohba
Two monks were once travelling together down a wet and muddy road. The rain was torrential, making it almost impossible to walk along the path. As the two men were trudging along, a beautiful girl dressed in silk appeared. She was unable to cross the path and looked distressed.

"Let me help you", said the older monk. He picked her up and carried her over the mud. His younger male companion did not utter a word that night until they reached their lodging temple. Then after hours of restrained conversation, the younger monk exclaimed: "We monks do not touch females; it is too tempting for us and can create a bad outcome". The older monk looked into the younger monks eyes and said, "I left the girl on the road. Are you still carrying her?"

This ancient Zen story illustrates beautifully how so many of us are trapped in the habit of constantly "re-living" the past in our minds, thus dishonouring the present moment. The young monk wasted hours distressing himself with judgment, speculation, anxiety, resentment and ultimately self-perpetuated unhappiness as a direct result of not being mindful. ~ Christopher Dines
Death Anxiety quotes by Christopher Dines
[Nicodemus] 'Magistra DeVega, can I ask for your help?'
[DeVega] 'You can ask,' she said with her usual calmness, 'but the clerics haven't developed a cure for death by idiotic leadership. ~ Blake Charlton
Death Anxiety quotes by Blake Charlton
Pain is nature's way of telling you to slow down. Death is nature's way of telling you to stop. ~ Jim Fixx
Death Anxiety quotes by Jim Fixx
From the circumstances of my position, I was often thrown into the society of horse-racers, card-players, fox-hunters, scientific and professional men, and of dignified men; and many a time have I asked myself, in the enthusiastic moment of the death of a fox, the victory of a favorite horse, the issue of a question eloquently argued at the bar, or in the great council of the nation, well, which of these kinds of reputation should I prefer? That of a horse-jockey, a fox-hunter, an orator, or the honest advocate of my country's rights? ~ Thomas Jefferson
Death Anxiety quotes by Thomas Jefferson
On Earth, Liz was constantly occupied with studying and finding a college and a career and all those other things that the adults in her life deemed terribly important. Since she had died, everything she was doing on Earth had seemed entirely meaningless. From Liz's point of view, the question of what her life would be was now definitively answered. The story of her life is short and pointless: There once was a girl who got hit by a car and died. The end. ~ Gabrielle Zevin
Death Anxiety quotes by Gabrielle Zevin
Death is an art, you know. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
Death Anxiety quotes by Alejandro Jodorowsky
It's a sea of death," Universo said. "But the water remembers what civilization tries to forget. ~ Patricia Engel
Death Anxiety quotes by Patricia Engel
My sister wrote letters to the dead and hid them in her bedroom drawers.
I wrote imaginary letters in my head to living. ~ Renee Ruin
Death Anxiety quotes by Renee Ruin
Because I like to flirt with death. Let's do this, give me your best shot, human. Let's see who gives in first. This isn't my first time. ~ Shakuita Johnson
Death Anxiety quotes by Shakuita Johnson
In Isaiah 40 - 66 God's creative power is a source of his people's confidence: the God of nature is also the God of history who can be relied upon for deliverance (Isa. 40:21-31; 42:5-6; 43:1; 45:11-13; 48:12-15; 51:9-16; 65:17-25; see also e.g. Pss 74:12-23; 136). God's creative power and continuing activity, bringing order out of chaos, light out of darkness and life out of death, gives hope to his people. ~ Robin Routledge
Death Anxiety quotes by Robin Routledge
Don't nobody have to die if they don't want to. - Pilate ~ Toni Morrison
Death Anxiety quotes by Toni Morrison
all of my bases covered. You assume responsibility for violations of local, regional, global, intrasystem, interstellar, intergalactic and interdimensional law, civil, religious, or military. I'm also not responsible for loss of life and limb, property damage, domestic disputes, engineered biological human dieback, nuclear fallout, violations of causality, cascading sub-quantum misalignment, hastening of cosmic heat death, rampant AI, accelerated climate change, geomagnetic reversal, vacuum metastability events, total existence failure, gray goo scenario, red goo scenario--that's a nasty one--tectonic inversion-- ~ Joseph R. Lallo
Death Anxiety quotes by Joseph R. Lallo
War Wizards don't give up. They find a way around any obstacle, even if that way results in their own death. He called the way of the wizard the dance with death. ~ Terry Goodkind
Death Anxiety quotes by Terry Goodkind
Sir, your baseball career may be over. You need to find a new profession. Gatewood answered, I've heard that before. (He had always come back. He would prove them wrong again.) (From Love and Death at the Encierro) ~ Hal Graff
Death Anxiety quotes by Hal Graff
Well, if pirates are bad,
And vampires are worse,
Then I pray that as long as I be
That though I sing of Vampirates
I never one shall see.
Yea, if pirates are danger
And vampires are death,
I'll extend my prayer for thee-
That thine eyes never see a Vampirate
... and they never lay a hand on thee ~ Justin Somper
Death Anxiety quotes by Justin Somper
Life is too short for mean anxieties. ~ Charles Kingsley
Death Anxiety quotes by Charles Kingsley
Death cannot separate us, for one life is born from the other ~ Mirena
Death Anxiety quotes by Mirena
He who has no religious affection, is in a state of spiritual death, and is wholly destitute of the powerful, quickening, saving influences of the Spirit of God upon his heart. ~ Jonathan Edwards
Death Anxiety quotes by Jonathan Edwards
Well, I'm freezing. Either one of us is going to have to check or we'll have to start cuddling."
Sicarius climbed the ladder.
"There's something wrong with a man who chooses to face death over cuddling with a woman. ~ Lindsay Buroker
Death Anxiety quotes by Lindsay Buroker
The present had somehow ceased to be an emergency. ~ Adam Haslett
Death Anxiety quotes by Adam Haslett
Imagine being just strong enough to remember what life was like, feeling things, your heartbeat, the world around you. And imagine you couldn't have it anymore, couldn't even properly remember it, but there was just enough that some deep part of you knew what you were missing. Wouldn't you do anything to get it back, if it was right there for the taking? Wouldn't you be willing to kill for it? ~ Apollo Blake
Death Anxiety quotes by Apollo Blake
The Eiani cleansed, refreshed, and rejuvenated me. In order to heal, it first had to burn away the dead, consume the decay, then force new life where death had once resided ~ Julia J. Gibbs
Death Anxiety quotes by Julia J. Gibbs
Death doesn't matter
It makes no difference to life.
We will always remain what we were to each other. ~ Nina George
Death Anxiety quotes by Nina George
We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough. ~ Augustus William Hare
Death Anxiety quotes by Augustus William Hare
And he wrote the single most famous poem about the death camps, "Todesfuge" (Death Fugue). ~ Clive James
Death Anxiety quotes by Clive James
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