Quotes About Philosophy

Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead.

There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.

Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.

Death was Patrick Henry's second choice.

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

Why do dying people never shed tears?

It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.

Death - a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.

A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.

No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.

When we exist, death is not yet present, and when death is present, then we do not exist.

Why should I be worried about death?

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.

After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.

I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death.

I don't believe in death. I think it's just a state of mind.

I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?

Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves.

Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.

The mind will not believe in death, perhaps because, as far as the mind is concerned, death never happens.

Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.