Fliehende Quotes & Sayings

Accustom yourself to the belief that death is of no concern to us, since all good and evil lie in sensation and sensation ends with death. Therefore the true belief that death is nothing to us makes a mortal life happy, not by adding to it an infinite time, but by taking away the desire for immortality. For there is no reason why the man who is thoroughly assured that there is nothing to fear in death should find anything to fear in life. So, too, he is foolish who says that he fears death, not because it will be painful when it comes, but because the anticipation of it is painful; for that which is no burden when it is present gives pain to no purpose when it is anticipated. Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist. It is therefore nothing either to the living or to the dead since it is not present to the living, and the dead no longer are. — Epicurus

You walk into a room, see a woman, and something happens. It's chemical. What are you going to do about it? — Theodore Dreiser

Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal. — Vivienne Westwood

Everyone knows about the substantive issues of concern, like federal health care, but very little is said about the process, the lack of accountability. — Justin Amash

It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting. — Dave Barry

The more we make the more we (think we) need, and the more we (think we) need means the more we must work and the more we must work means the more time we spend away from the home we're killing ourselves to pay for but it's a home we're never in except maybe on the weekends and then we're so exhausted we don't want to be bothered with the family we say we're providing a better life. — Kathy Y. Wilson

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature. — Charles De Secondat