Children Quote by Sadegh Hedayat

Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.

— Dorothee Solle

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are…

— Hannah Arendt

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is…

— Susan Sontag

I think on death as the apparent end of the illusions that encompass us. They all have a sudden and unexpected end, that challenges…

— Vachel Lindsay

But superstition, like belief, must die.

— Philip Larkin

The thought of death deceives us; for it causes us to neglect to live.

— Luc de Clapiers

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the…

— Marcus Aurelius

“By the way, don’t ever let someone convince you that there’s anything — and I mean anything — good about dying. There is nothing…

— Ron Currie Jr

Death is the mother of beauty, mystical, Within whose burning bosom we devise Our earthly mothers waiting, sleeplessly.

— Wallace Stevens

“[...] death follows us around for a reason. It's because death is our best adviser. There is nothing more powerful than a person who…

— A.C. Ping