Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.

La mort seule – la sienne propre comme celle des autres – permet d’atteindre l’absolu : en sacrifiant sa vie, on prouve qu’on chérit son idéal plus qu’elle.

I tell you it's deadly when you start thinking your wife might be right.

hurry, and all that it involves, is fatal.

Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

La fatalidad nos hace invisibles

La moraleja de todas las tragedias es la misma: que la Fortuna siempre ataca a los reinos prepotentes cuando menos lo esperan.

Comme un fou se croit Dieu, nous nous croyons mortels.

Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.

But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghost-like, the spot where some great and marked event has given the colour to their lifetime; and, still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.

It's the thinking that gets you killed.

Voltaire got it right long ago: ‘Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.’ So did Bertrand Russell: ‘Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.