“Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.”

“Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.”

“So to be sick unto death is not to be able to die -- yet not as though there were hope of life; no, the hopelessness in this case is that even the last hope, death, is not available. When death is the greatest danger, one hopes for life; but when one becomes acquainted with an even more dreadful danger, one hopes for death. So when the danger is so great that death has become one's hope, despair is the disconsolateness of not being able to die.”

“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.”

“The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death”

“after all we had been through, we would still risk death rather than live under communists. The craving for freedom was too strong.”