Death Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings,…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not…

— Socrates

“To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not; for it is to think one knows what one…

— Plato

“For to fear death, men, is in fact nothing other than to seem to be wise, but not to be so. For it is…

— Plato

“Men don't fear death, but insignificance.”

— RMA Spears

“If a man has learned to think, no matter what he may think about, he is always thinking of his own death. All philosophers…

— William Barrett

“To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not; it is to think that…

— Plato

“There should be no fear of death, for the death of the body is but a gentle passing to a much freer life”

— Helen Greaves

“For the fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretence of knowing the unknown; and no…

— Plato

Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees.

— Camille Paglia

“ The spectacle of nature, by growing quite familiar to him, becomes at last equally indifferent. It is constantly the same order, constantly the…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it.”

— Tom Stoppard