William Hazlitt Quotes About Death

Quotes about: Death

• Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?

  William Hazlitt

  Death, Giving, Trouble

  Table Talk "On the Fear of Death" (1822)

• Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

  William Hazlitt

  Death, Dying, Consciousness

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.171, Delphi Classics

• The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.

  William Hazlitt

  Death, Dying, Cures

  Table Talk 'On the Fear of Death'

• A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

  William Hazlitt

  Death, Dying, Action

  William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”, p.133

• Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

  William Hazlitt

  Death, Country, Horse

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.101

• The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.

  William Hazlitt

  Death, Causes, Youth

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