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Death Quotes by Plato
- No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.
- I have good hope that there is something after death.
- Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
- Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?
- And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are…
- O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse…
- And a democracy, I suppose, comes into being when the poor, winning the victory, put to death some of the other party, drive out others,…
- Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this…
- We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?
- The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward…
- But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death.…
- This alone is to be feared: the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of spirit.
- No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they…
- Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
- Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
- And now I depart hence condemned by you to suffer the penalty of death, and they, too, go their ways condemned by the truth to…
More Death Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- 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