Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

Science without conscience is the death of the soul. ”

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly. ”

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye. ”

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death. ”

I think that even though my father wasn't there, in his death and in his memory, he has been a mentor to me in my manhood because my mom couldn't teach me how to be a man. ”

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep. ”

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. ”

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. ”

The great end of life is not knowledge but action. ”

I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia. ”