Awareness Quote by Epicurus

“[A] right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not because it adds to it an infinite span…

— Epicurus

Death is nothing to us: for after our bodies have been dissolved by death they are without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is…

— Epicurus

“Accustom yourself to the belief that death is of no concern to us, since all good and evil lie in sensation and sensation ends…

— Epicurus

“Because being dead is indistinguishable – from a subjective perspective – from being unborn or from dreamless sleep, it can hold no terrors. What…

— Anthony Clifford Grayling

Those who have lived a good life do not fear death, but meet it calmly, and even long for it in the face of…

— Anonymous

“Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. All sensation and consciousness ends with…

— Epicurus

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

— Bryant H. McGill

“Death gives a reason to our lives. More important then that, death creates a special value for time. If our time on earth was…

— Marilena Chauí

Sometimes I think death is a greater awareness than life. Life gives us the illusion of immortality, whereas death gives us the certainty of…

— Frederick Lenz

We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor should we…

— Mahatma Gandhi

We are all, always, the desire not to die. This desire is as immeasurable and varied as life's complexity, but at bottom this is…

— Henri Barbusse

Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death…

— Epicurus