Sentences with phrase «fear of death»

That palpable tension that comes from fear of death!

Fear of the unknown mixed with fear of death.

I never even made it to actually playing a game, for fear of death by hopeless boredom while waiting for the game to launch.

Most religion plays on fear of death, fear of bad fortune, fear of loss of loved ones, fear of poor health.

But, knowing our natural fear of death, those who invented and developed the religions added this in as a powerful incentive for belief.

Do they want an easier experience with less challenges or do they want to feel ever present fear of death?

The fears of failing, of being judged, or being rejected can be as intense as fear of death.

The deepest root of much of what we do is an existential fear of death.

Fear of death probably wont go away, but the explanation that religion gives us will eventually fade.

As if fear of death is going to make me believe in something I have no evidence for.

He found that the near - death experience group also had an increased belief in an afterlife and a decreased fear of death compared with the others.

Not into sky - high platforms because you have a healthy fear of death?

For the greatest fear of death is always that it will pass us by.

These positive associations contest the primal fear of death, and the unnatural fight against it.

The researchers say it's possibly because religious people have less fear of death.

Although many psychologists will argue that these fears are proxies for the larger fear of death.

I never even made it to actually playing a game, for fear of death by hopeless boredom while waiting for the game to launch.

We might invent other new religions out of fear of death and fear of our own insignifigance, but Jesus (apart from being a real guy who got killed 2000 years ago for saying we should be nice to each other) exists only in our minds.

Childbirth prayers and the admonishment to pregnant women to write their wills attest to the historical fear of death in childbirth.

When the time comes to leave this world, to be «a valiant soul without fear of death» (to quote St. Oliver Plunkett), we make our final sacrifice to God for the life that he has given to us.

Luther's ever present fear of death which accompanied him after leaving the Wartburg, did not go away, but it did lessen.

For Joan, any kind of parting was death; and her deep fear of death fueled many of her lyric furies of paint.

Researchers say the improved performance is the result of a subconscious effort to boost self - esteem, which is a protective buffer against fear of death, according to psychology's terror management theory.

I had been thinking that I was in a death museum, so Ensor's fear of death really came through.

But I now understand that a constant fear of death is the surest way to ruin my own blessed life.

It's a tale about growing up, gaining wisdom, and reconciling with Mom (something we all must do eventually) but it's also an honest meditation on our deepest fears of death and abandonment.»

Despite all their hopes for the afterlife, the ancient Egyptians could not escape the natural human fear of death and its many unknowns.

Hebrews 2:14,15 «14 Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, 15 and might free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives.»

@ 12121212: You seem to think fear of death triggers religion.

For the fearful it seems to be a tool to quell the natural, innate fear of death.

To be sure, the sources and manifestations of violence are complex But what do we make of competitiveness, the cult of winning, the armoring of emotions, the tendency to dichotomize reality, the abstraction from bodily concreteness and the exaggerated fear of death that is manifested in a morbid fascination with it?

I, being human, do understand it and know of no reason why I should, except on «faith», which itself can not be understood except that it depends on our more primitive instincts like fear of death.

There was still fear of death and judgement, heaven or hell.

«How fear of death affects human attitudes toward animal life.»

Why there are more stars in heaven then the grains of sand... if there is no life after death, why is there fear of death... if the world is evolving, why the laws of the universe are not evolving with it... then I will say that there is no Creator.

Also fear of death or an eternal hell is a powerful motivator to subscribe to something that promises an afterlife.

Religion is, by and large, built on a profound fear of death... and the church has used that fear to perpetuate a system that is filled with hypocrisy, ritual, judgment, and conflict.

The most interesting thing I learned was, the more rabid a believer you are, the more fear of death you have.

Don DeLillo has made fear of death and the lure of apocalypse a key theme in his fiction.

Over the next three months the sense of doom and fear of death overwhelmed me.

Why is there so much fear of death that so many people need to beleive in imaginary things to soothe their fears??

Familiarity with death meant that resurrection possessed a considerable poignancy for the women, bringing a hope that countered the ubiquitous fear of death.

Most Likely to Induce a Small Faith Crisis: Hans Villarica at The Atlantic with «How the unrelenting fear of death shapes our behavior»

Quite aside from hard - to - measure traumas such as the drawn - out anticipation of an impending catastrophe, the incarceration itself, the dehumanization, the sustained fear of death, I could point to some very tangible assaults upon my health in the concentration camp.

Rousseau thought fear of death worse than death itself, for in poisoning our lives it undermines our trust and ultimately our freedom.

It asks it followers to suspend thought and be subservient to a cult, offering nothing more than lies design to exploit the victims fear of death.