Sleep, you say, is the image of death; for my part I say that it is rather the image of life.

Quote by Blaise Pascal

Topics: Death Quotes

Live free or die

Live free or die

You always admire what you really don't understand.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it...

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it...

Maybe he's only a little bit crazy, like painters, or composers, or some of those...

Maybe he's only a little bit crazy, like painters, or composers, or some of those...

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious...

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious...

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness......

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness......

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of...

Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of...

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true...

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true...

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought...

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought...

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we...

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we...

Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and...

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and...

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent...

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent...

Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the...

Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the...

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics;...

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics;...

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love...

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love...

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on...

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on...

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.