Famous Quotes

"In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep for we are dying the darkness and we know no death."

Thomas Wolfe 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 Thomas Wolfe

• "In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep for we are dying the darkness and we know no death."

• "Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs."

• "Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man."

• "All things on earth point home in old October sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken."

• "You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity."