Epicurus
Epicurus Quotes about Fear
Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.
Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.
If death causes you no pain when you're dead, it is foolish to allow the fear of it to cause you pain now.
Any device whatever by which one frees himself from the fear of others is a natural good.
Men, believing in myths, will always fear something terrible, everlasting punishment as certain or probable . . . Men base all these fears not on mature opinions, but on irrational fancies, that they are more disturbed by fear of the unknown than by facing facts. Peace of mind lies in being delivered from all these fears.
What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.
Don't fear god, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.
There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured.
Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been set up to punish the offense.
A man who causes fear cannot be free from fear.
Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?
Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.
It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.