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Death Quotes by Epictetus
- It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
- Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear…
- Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.
- In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any…
- Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?... what do you wish to be doing when…
- Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but only "I have given it back." Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is…
- If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that.
- It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible…
- For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.
More Death Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
- Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — Wystan Hugh Auden