The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
To some extent I liken slavery to death.
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
Biography lends to death a new terror.
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
