Thoughts on... death NewPhilosopher
“Do not go gentle into
that good night.”
Dylan Thomas“It is not death that a
man should fear, but nev-
er beginning to live.”
Marcus Aurelius“Death must be an evil —
and the gods agree;
for why else would they
live forever?”
Sappho“I’d rather die on my
feet than live on my
knees.”
Emiliano Zapata“Bereavement is a dark-
ness impenetrable to the
imagination of the un-
bereaved.”
Iris Murdoch“It is a fearful thing
to love what Death can
touch.”
Josephine Jacobson
“One has to pay dear-
ly for immortality;
one has to die several
times while one is still
alive.”
Friedrich Nietzsche“Death walks faster than
the wind and never re-
turns what he has taken.”
Hans Christian Andersen