“Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.” IfsMenReasonDeathCertainDiesAsksPleasureConditionsDemandComplainingFixedOur TimeMisfortunesComplaintsPayment Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.” DeathProcessConditionsHigherSettingSettingsRisingDecayAdvancementBrighterLife DeathFruitful Life Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence by asserting that all conditions are leveled by death; a position which, however it may defect the happy, will seldom afford much comfort to the wretched.” MayPhilosophyDeathConditionsPositionComfortDefectsWretchedInsolence Book:The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler Source: The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler
“Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of man.” MenDeathTurnsWaitingNumbersFateImagineConditionsSightFellowsChainsEach DayWithout Hope Book:Pascal's Pensees Source: Pascal's Pensees
“No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.” HumansHas BeensAblePainPoliticalDeathSocialSadnessSocietyConditionsEmotionalDepressionAbsolutesVicesHuman ConditionThirstFear Of DeathVice VersaPolitical SystemsAbolishThis SocietySad LifeSocial ConditionsSadness Of LifeSadness And Love Author:Eugene Ionesco