Famous Quotes

"Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one."

Vladimir Nabokov 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 Vladimir Nabokov

• "A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."

• "To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute."

• "Genius is an African who dreams up snow."

• "A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past."

• "Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much."