Famous Quotes

"Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out."

Carl Sagan 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 Carl Sagan

• "I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students."

• "The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous."

• "A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."

• "Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out."

• "Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."