Blank Quote by H. P. Lovecraft

We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that…

— Blaise Pascal

In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have…

— Francois Fenelon

It is not desirable that we should live as in the constant atmosphere and presence of death; that would unfit us for life; but…

— Henry Ward Beecher

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence . . .

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of…

— Anonymous

It's not that we're trying to avoid death; we're trying to enjoy our lives fully, to wring every wonderful drop out of life that…

— Joe De Sena

“When the fear of death leaves us, the destructive craving for life leaves us too. We can then restrict our desires and our demands…

— Jürgen Moltmann

Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.

— Leon Kass

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 focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?

— Arthur C. Clarke

“So we must run back and forth between these two suns in our firmament—the presentiment of death and awareness of life—and avoid being transfixed…

— Roberto Mangabeira Unger