6330 | One with no use for life is wiser than one who values it [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
344 | If death is like a night of dreamless sleep, such nights are very pleasant [Socrates] |
339 | Men fear death as a great evil when it may be a great blessing [Socrates] |
5229 | The more virtuous and happy a person is, the worse the prospect becomes of ending life [Aristotle] |
14054 | Fearing death is absurd, because we are not present when it occurs [Epicurus] |
14053 | It is absurd to fear the pain of death when you are not even facing it [Epicurus] |
14055 | The wisdom that produces a good life also produces a good death [Epicurus] |
5726 | The dead are no different from those who were never born [Lucretius] |
13294 | We know death, which is like before birth; ceasing to be and never beginning are the same [Seneca] |
13299 | Living is nothing wonderful; what matters is to die well [Seneca] |
13300 | It is as silly to lament ceasing to be as to lament not having lived in the remote past [Seneca] |
23339 | I will die as becomes a person returning what he does not own [Epictetus] |
23345 | Don't be frightened of pain or death; only be frightened of fearing them [Epictetus] |
16764 | The soul conserves the body, as we see by its dissolution when the soul leaves [Toletus] |
7495 | Apart from the fear, dying is an easy duty [Montaigne] |
16763 | We don't die because the soul departs; the soul departs because the organs cease functioning [Descartes] |
19420 | Death and generation are just transformations of an animal, augmented or diminished [Leibniz] |
19346 | Most people facing death would happily re-live a similar life, with just a bit of variety [Leibniz] |
13173 | Death is just the contraction of an animal [Leibniz] |
4177 | Most people would probably choose non-existence at the end of their life, rather than relive the whole thing [Schopenhauer] |
14805 | Is there any such thing as death among the lower organisms? [Peirce] |
20268 | Most dying people have probably lost more important things than what they are about to lose [Nietzsche] |
24181 | We need love to have a good death [Weil] |
3265 | We don't worry about the time before we were born the way we worry about death [Nagel] |
4648 | 'Death' is best seen as irreversible loss of consciousness, since this is why we care about brain function [Glover] |
6866 | It is disturbing if we become unreal when we die, but if time is unreal, then we remain real after death [Le Poidevin] |
9304 | Death appears to be more frightening the less one has lived [Svendsen] |