Famous Quotes

"We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death."

Umberto Eco 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 Umberto Eco

• "Translation is the art of failure."

• "Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."

• "The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else."

• "A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams."

• "There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past."