Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Dying

• We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no hope, and therefore every form of philosophy, every form of theological concept, is merely an escape from the actual reality of what is. All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Death, Atheist, Philosophy

  "Freedom From The Known" by Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1969.

• What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Justice, Gentleman, Dying

• Easter was when they nailed Him to the cross. And He never said a mumbling word.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Easter, Dying, Crosses

• It look like the lord just work for wite folks cause ever sens i wasn nothin but a litle boy i been on my on haulin water to the fiel on that ol water cart wit all them dime bukets an that dipper just hittin an old dorthy just trottin and trottin an me up their hittin her wit that rope.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Boys, Water, Dying

• I don't want them to kill no hog . . . . I want a man to go to that chair, on his own two feet.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Two, Feet

• Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to count on any thing but annuals.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Death, Dying, Amusement

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