Life & Death Sayings

Attachment is the root of all suffering.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

The telephone may be used to talk to the dead, and the dead may be used to talk to the living.

There is no death, but only change.

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

Truth never triumphs—its opponents just die out.

The computer is a tool, and like any tool, it can be used for good or for evil.

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity.

It is the lot of man to suffer; but it is also his lot to alleviate the sufferings of others.

Much suffering is caused by the humors.

I feel we have blood on our hands.

I am not afraid of death. I am afraid of not living.

I have a horrid presentiment of my own death.

My biggest fear is that people will stop being curious. That they'll stop asking questions, and just accept what they're told.

Chimpanzees are so like us, they have a very human-like capacity for evil.

He who studies the stars does not fear the darkness.

For me, life may well continue in solitude. I have never perceived those to whom I have been most attached other than as through a glass, darkly.

Before I was born it was completely paradise… the moment of [being] born is the moment the paradise is lost. Death is the regain of this paradise.