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Death Quotes by Socrates
- You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or…
- To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
- I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not…
- Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost.
- Let us reflect in this way, too, that there is good hope that death is a blessing, for it is one of two things: either…
- Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or…
- To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do…
- To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does…
- Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord…
- The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.
- A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death.
- The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.
- I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am…
- For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one…
- It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
- Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either…
- You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more…
- The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body…
- Death offers mankind a full view of truth.
- Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Death is a very narrow theme, but it reaches a wide audience.
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