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Dying Quotes by Socrates
- 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…
More Dying Quotes
- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong
- 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
- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. — Marcus Aurelius
- The act of dying is one of the acts of life. — Marcus Aurelius
- Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries… — Marcus Aurelius
- I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. — Francis Bacon