Famous Quotes

"It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape."

Voltaire 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 Voltaire

• "What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy."

• "He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it."

• "We are rarely proud when we are alone."

• "Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game."

• "Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."