Bertrand Russell Quotes

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness.

That's what religion teaches: that life is a temporary thing which is going to dissolve one day.

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

Who wants to live forever?

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

Lies here food for the worms yet the work shall not be lost.

I think about life and death a lot. For the longest time I thought this was it, but then I thought maybe reincarnation does exist and we will all come back. My new thought is either of these could be true, but realistically what is going to happen is when you are dead you are not going to know you are dead, so it's not the end of the world.

There's only two things. There's life, and there's death.

You live you die and death not ends it.

We're all immortal until we die.

If we were doomed to live forever, we would scarcely be aware of the beauty around us.

That which we die for lives as wholly as that which we live for dies.

Life was precious. Life was fragile. Here one moment, gone the next. Every second should be milked for all it's worth because you never know when the bottom was going to drop out.

Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind.

Seeking to perpetuate one's name on earth is like writing on the sand by the seashore; to be perpetual it must be written on eternal shores.

For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.