"If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death."

Death, Life

15

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death."

Exlpore more Death quotes

"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Death, Knowledge, Belief, Ambition

"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Death, Success, Being

"Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Death, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Inspirational

"Red sky at night, the city's alight."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Death, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Happiness

"Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Death, Truth, Regret, Life, Power

"The character who was like me he died at 46, even it was 2008 year so far his name was David Foster Wallace."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Death, Truth, Life, Wisdom

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Death, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Death, Power, Truth, Happiness, Today

"The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Death, Power, Wisdom, Future, Happiness

"Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Death, Truth, Fear, Philosophy

Explore more quotes by Samuel Butler

"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."

Money, People, Children, Clothes

"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."

Death, Success, Being

"When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence."

Doubt, Man, Will, Writing

"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

Architecture, Music, Work, Literature

"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."

God, Work

"A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget."

Friendship, Friend, Forget

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

People, Company

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

Man, Men

"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

Man, Men, Goodness

"Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself."

Fear, Hearing