Famous Quotes

"Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject."

Hannah Arendt 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 Hannah Arendt

• "To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious."

• "By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality."

• "This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst expect the best and take what comes."

• "In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism."

• "Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one."