Plato Quotes About Death

Quotes about: Death

• Only the dead have seen the end of war.

  Plato

  Death, Memorial Day, Plato

• We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

  Plato

  Death, Children, Men

• Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

  Plato

  Life, Death, Wisdom

• Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

  Plato

  Death, Night, Men

  Plato (1947). “The Trial and Death of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo”, p.44, Lulu.com

• No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

  Plato

  Death, Blessing, Men

  Plato (1970). “Great dialogues of Plato”, Plume

• The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.

  Plato

  Death, Real, Knowing

  Plato (2012). “The Trial and Death of Socrates: Four Dialogues”, p.30, Courier Corporation

• Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

  Plato

  Death, Plato, Lasts

• I have good hope that there is something after death.

  Plato

  Death, Plato, Dying

• I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.

  Plato

  Death, Men, Hours

  Plato, M. G. Epictetus (2010). “The Apology, Phaedo and Crito by Plato; The Golden Sayings by Epictetus; The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

• Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.

  Plato

  Death, Men, Excellence

  Phaedo 118a

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