Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern - why then should it…

Quote by William Hazlitt

Topics: Death Quotes

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we...

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we...

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than...

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than...

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the...

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the...

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not...

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not...

The busier we are the more leisure we have.

The busier we are the more leisure we have.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with...

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with...

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as...

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as...

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born...

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born...

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are...

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are...

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in...

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in...

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be....

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be....

Genius, like humanity, rusts for the want of use

Genius, like humanity, rusts for the want of use

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires...

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires...