Quotes about Philosophy
Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I want to die young at a ripe old age.
— Ashley Montagu
To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.
— Mark Twain
How short is human life! the very breath Which frames my words accelerates my death.
— Hannah More
So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is the very joy of this earthly life to think that it will come to an end.
— Charles Spurgeon
A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference nor does he try to make a victory of it.
— Paulo Coelho
Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.
— Marcus Aurelius
Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.
— Marcus Aurelius
In some ways, evil is backhanded proof of Gods existence.
— Philip Yancey
The good and wise lead quite lives
— Euripides
Teiresias: Yes well, what is it they say, you're as young as you feel? Kadmos: We must get to the mountain. Should we call a cab? Teiresias: That doesn't sound very Dionysian. Kadmos: Good point. Let's walk.
— Euripides