Famous Quotes

"How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset."

George MacDonald 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 George MacDonald

• "Age is not all decay it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk."

• "Attitudes are more important than facts."

• "It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen."

• "Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it."

• "It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity."