Summary:
This 700-word article includes twenty-five quotes that explain or mention people’s fear of death. It includes quotes from Woody Allen, Francis Bacon, Katharine Hepburn, Plato, Mark Twain, and many more.

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There is a famous quote by Jerry Seinfeld that goes, “According to most studies, people´s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you´re better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.” While he might not have been right about the being better off in the casket, he was right about people’s fear of death. Here are a few ways people have expressed this fear.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen

Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon, Essays

We are afraid to live, but scared to die
Inderpal Bahra

The irony of man’s condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.
Ernest Becker

The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity—designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.
Ernest Becker

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Written by: DarcyLogan
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