Able Quote by Voltaire

“Death is the true inspiring genius, or the muse of philosophy, wherefore Socrates has defined the latter as θανάτου μελέτη. Indeed without death men…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“The old world told men merely about to live and to die. Today men think about defeating death and resurrection.”

— Toba Beta

“I don't know if it be a peculiarity in me, but I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death,…

— Emily Brontë

“Only through the death experience could man fully understand his life experience. Only through the realization that his days on earth were finite could…

— Dan Brown

Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has fled his…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

True, man cannot escape death. But for the present he is alive; and life, not death, takes hold of him... It is mans innate…

— Ludwig von Mises

Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I…

— Virginia Woolf

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Have not many of us, in the weary way of life, felt, in some hours, how far easier it were to die than to…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardships of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet…

— Anonymous

“Death truly does have life, and walks with and lives through us everyday.”

— Nicholas A. McGirr

“Living is like being chained at the bottom of a shallow pond with my eyes open and no air. I can see distorted images…

— Katie McGarry