Death Quote by Plato

“[T]hose who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.”

— Plato

“...the one aim of those who practice philosophy in the proper manner is to practice for dying and death.”

— Socrates trans. G.M.A. Grube

“Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now if this…

— Plato

To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

— Plato

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own…

— Socrates

“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

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

— James Thurber

“Anyone who teaches men how to die would teach them how to live.36”

— Michel de Montaigne

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

— Albert Camus

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

Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men.

— William Benton Clulow