"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

Death, Experience, Life, Eternity

34

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."

Exlpore more Death quotes

"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

Death, War

"He has gone to the demnition bow-wows."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Death, Humor, End, Life

"Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death."

Buddha, Indian Leader

Death, Health, Life, State

"So," he asked. "How's death?""Hard," she said. "It just keeps going."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Death, Hardship, Existence, Endurance

"Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?"I say, goodnight.The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

Death, Memory, Sorrow, Celebrity

"Nothing in his life became him like leaving it."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Death, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Death, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"Birth was the death of him."

Samuel Beckett, Irish Playwright

Death,

"May your sleep be your death, and your wakefulness be your heaven."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

Death, Sleep, Peace, Heaven

"The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life."

Thomas Mann, German Writer

Death, Life, Religious

Explore more quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.""

Cultural

"I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment."

Life

"Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again."

Science

"Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie."

Lie

"Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness."

Humor

"A confession has to be part of your new life."

Life

"The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question."

Peace

"Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing."

Nothing

"The world is the totality of facts, not of things."

Fact

"Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it."

Care