Famous Quotes

"Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death."

Nicolas Chamfort 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 Nicolas Chamfort

• "Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life."

• "It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful."

• "The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society."

• "Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all."

• "Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich."