Death Quote by Samuel Johnson — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”

“Memory is the mother of all wisdom.”

“In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.”

“He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.”

“Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.”

“I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”

“Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.”

“May, I love you with everything I am. For so long, I just wanted to be like you. But I had to figure out that I am someone too, and now I can carry you, your heart with mine, everywhere I go.”

“And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-”

“Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.”

“That’s what death did, it treated you like a child, like everything you had ever thought and done and cared about was just a child’s game, to be crumpled up and thrown away when it was over. It didn’t matter. Death didn’t respect you. Death thought you were bullshit, and it wanted to make sure you knew it.”

“People living deeply have no fear of death.”