Philosophy Quotes

"Death is only a horizon. And a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight."

- Richard Dehmel

"Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it."

- Lily Tomlin

"In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order."

- Will Durant

"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."

- W. Somerset Maugham

"A human being would certainly not grow to be 70 or 80 years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species to which he belongs. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning."

- Carl Jung

"With age comes the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?"

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"It matters not how long we live but how."

- Philip James Bailey

"As we grow old, the beauty steals inward."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."

- Groucho Marx

"Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man."

- Leon Trotsky

"It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen."

- Brigitte Bardot

"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?"

- Satchel Paige

"We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage."

- Winston Churchill

"Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor."

- Euripides

"He understood how the world worked—bad things happened to good people, bad people died happy in their beds. It happened every day. So why bother being good? The word itself was attached to a series of behaviors that was, at best, an abstraction. A person profited nothing from being good."

- Nick Cutter

"What does it mean, bad things happen to good people? I wonder. What does one have to do to be crowned a good person? What does it take to be considered a bad one? Who decides what is good and what is bad? Who makes that judgement? Who has that right?"

- Arti Manani

"Why does Joe Normie think it’s a litmus test for morality if one returns one’s shopping cart? Big-box stores put out of business local retailers, they automated their systems to reduce employees, and they got customers to be their own cashiers without getting paid for their labor, and yet to prove I’m a good person, I’m supposed to do more unpaid work for them to streamline their operation?"

- Jarod Kintz

"Death is a dialogue between the spirit and the dust."

"For in that sleep of death what dreams may come…"

"No philosopher understands his dog."

"The cat is above all things, a dramatist."

"Mors certa, hora incerta. (Death is certain, the hour is uncertain.)"

"Memento mori. (Remember that you must die.)"

"Dum vivimus, vivamus. (While we live, let us live.)"

"Respice post te. Hominem te esse memento. (Look behind you. Remember that you are but a man.)"

"Fata viam invenient. (Fate will find a way.)"

"Life is eternal and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon, and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight."

"The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die, and you to live."

"All that lives must die."

"Life is but a walking shadow."