# Who Fears Death

- Author: [Nnedi Okorafor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nnedi-okorafor.md)
- Quotes: 9
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/nnedi-okorafor/who-fears-death

## Quotes

> We fear what we don’t know.

p. 139 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nnedi-okorafor/who-fears-death/we-fear-what.md)

> Withholding the truth is lying.

p. 95 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nnedi-okorafor/who-fears-death/withholding-the-truth.md)

> “Are you willing to allow other the same right to their beliefs?”
>
> “If their beliefs don’t hurt others and, when I feel the need, I am allowed to call them stupid in my mind, then yes.”

p. 110 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nnedi-okorafor/who-fears-death/are-you-willing.md)

> “Is it better to give or receive?”
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> “They’re the same,” I said. “One can’t exist without the other. But if you keep giving without receiving, you’re a fool.”

p. 111 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nnedi-okorafor/who-fears-death/is-it-better.md)

> Just because something is not alive, does not mean that it is dead. You have to be alive first to be dead.

p. 281 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nnedi-okorafor/who-fears-death/just-because-something.md)

> Mortality smelled muddy and wet and I reeked of it.

p. 278 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nnedi-okorafor/who-fears-death/mortality-smelled-muddy.md)

> People hate what they don’t understand.

p. 100 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nnedi-okorafor/who-fears-death/people-hate-what.md)

> When I am not moving toward my fate, it comes to me.

p. 273 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nnedi-okorafor/who-fears-death/when-i-am-not.md)

> There is nothing that a man must believe that can’t be seen or touched or sensed.

p. 144 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nnedi-okorafor/who-fears-death/there-is-nothing.md)