Famous Quotes

"Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death."

Herman Melville 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 Herman Melville

• "Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death."

• "Art is the objectification of feeling."

• "To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."

• "Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope."

• "Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth."