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Quotes About Philosophy

Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Gray hairs are death's blossoms.
~ Friedrich Schiller
As one gets older, this question of death, becomes more vexing and urgent.
~ George Saunders
I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next.
~ Haruki Murakami
Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth The best of all were never to be born.
~ Heinrich Heine
To be content with death may be better than to desire it.
~ Thomas Browne
I journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners.
~ Tom Robbins
The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law.
~ Tom Shadyac
If you live right, death is a joke to you as far as fear is concerned.
~ Will Rogers
Eyes spiritualised by death can judge, I cannot, but I am not content.
~ William Butler Yeats
Buddhists and Christians contrive to agree about death Making death their ideal basis for different ideals. The Communists however disapprove of death Except when practical.
~ William Empson
This thought is as a death.
~ William Shakespeare
I don't actually believe in the extension of consciousness after death.
~ Zadie Smith
The only sin is the sin of being born
~ Samuel Beckett
In practice it is death that works soseductively behind the image of its brother, sleep
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The question is whether suicide is the way out or the way in.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I fear death. I think I must learn to romanticize death so that I can cope with its brutal irreversible numbness...!
~ Lukhman Pambra
...is not all philosophy but preparation for a serene dying?
~ Unknown
The thought of death destroys some people and saves others.
~ Marty Rubin
Nothing matters when you are dead, and, you are dead when nothing matters.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT."Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.
~ Terry Pratchett
Death? Why all this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition to life, not an evil.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
On the Death of his ChildDew Evaporates And all our world is dew...so dear, So fresh, so fleeting
~ Kobayashi Issa, Japanese Haiku
John Lennon said life was what happened while you made other plans. So was death.
~ Unknown