Famous Quotes

"For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium."

Albert Camus on Death

More quotes about Death

• "A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Death

• "To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."

  Buddha on Death

• "The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."

  Albert Einstein on Death

• "The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."

  Mark Twain on Death

• "Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see."

  Helen Keller on Death

More quotes by Albert Camus

• "Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face."

• "The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone."

• "Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful."

• "A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession."

• "Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others."