Plato Quotes

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.

He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.

I have always been very wary of what would happen when I die. I feel I would die every day, and that thought sometimes made me more aware that I am alive.

There's something about death. It's like trying to understand our own mortality and immortality. That's why society is so into things like vampires, because they don't die. Well, why don't they die?

I thought that we all were afraid of death, but I've talked to my wife and other people, and they're not afraid of death the way I am. I find that really confusing. I don't like the idea of nothingness - that's terrifying to me.

I don't want to die. I can't wrap my head around the concept of death because I'm totally atheist. There's nothing after life in my head, whether that's right or wrong.

The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.

It’s been too hard living, but I’m afraid to die. ‘Cause I don’t know what’s up there, beyond the sky.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.

The fear of death is far greater than the death itself. But the fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all!

Why fear death? Death is only a beautiful adventure.

Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.

So once you're dead there's just nothing? Mari: Basically... Korogi: I get so scared when I start thinking about this stuff. I can hardly breathe, and my whole body wants to shrink into a corner. It's so much easier to just believe in reincarnation.

I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.

Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you'll be.

There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.

Death promises nothing--not even oblivion.

Death is only frightening from the near side.

All fears are one fear. Just the fear of death. And we accept it, then we are at peace.