Death Quotes by Blaise Pascal

Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

— Blaise Pascal

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

— Blaise Pascal

Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?

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Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons.

— Blaise Pascal

Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.

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Sleep, you say, is the image of death; for my part I say that it is rather the image of life.

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All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

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The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

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As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be…

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“The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us, and which touches us so profoundly,…

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If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose…

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Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks…

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The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly…

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Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid…

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Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

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Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death.

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“Let us imagine a number of men in chains, and all condemned to death, where some are slaughtered each day in the…

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Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it…

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We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only…

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Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the…

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Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is…

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Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and…

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“and the same man who spends so many days and nights in fury and despair at losing some office or at some…

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“I ask you neither for health nor for sickness, for life nor for death; but that you may dispose of my health…

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“Thus I stretch out my arms to my Saviour, who, after being foretold for four thousand years, came on earth to die…

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“So I hold out my arms to my Redeemer, who, having been foretold for four thousand years, has come to suffer and…

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“The Christian religion alone has been able to cure these twin vices, not by using one to expel the other according to…

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Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

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The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.

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Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives

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“They prefer death to peace, others prefer death to war. Any opinion can be preferred to life, which it seems so natural…

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We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire…

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“All things can be deadly to us, even the things made to serve us; as in nature walls can kill us, and…

— Blaise Pascal

Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.

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Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far…

— Blaise Pascal