“He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
“If a man hasn’t found something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”
“Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live”
“Because that, more than any monster, was what Sam had feared: that he was weak and cowardly. He had a terrible fear of being afraid.”
“But this is a thing that I know--to live with fear is not to live at all. A man will die every moment he is afraid.”
“And into its bland merciless face what did he have to show as his proof that he deserved to live? - Nothing but that he was afraid to die.”