Blaise Pascal Quotes About Death

Quotes about: Death

• Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Suicide, Years

• All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Knows, Dies

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.55, Courier Corporation

• Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that thereshould be men indifferent to the loss of their existence and to the perils of everlasting suffering.

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Loss, Men

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

• You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Spiritual, Atheist

• Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Dying

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.37, Courier Corporation

• 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.

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Fate, Men

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

• Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Men, Agony

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.369

• Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In Jesus Christ it is fair and lovely, it is good and holy, it is the joy of saints.

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Jesus, Joy

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 176, 1895.

• We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that our evils are infinite, and, lastly, that death, which threatens us every moment, must infallibly place us within a few years under the dreadful necessity of being forever either annihilated or unhappy.

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Real, Vanity

• Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death.

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Sadness, Mean

  Blaise Pascal (2012). “Pascal's Pensées”, p.105, tredition

• Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Thinking, Bears

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.63, Cosimo, Inc.

• Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Painful, Contemplation

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