Skip to content
quotesby

About this quote

What does it mean?
Death is presented as a fair and equal force that moderates all human life and inequalities.
In plain terms
Death treats everyone equally and fairly.
What can you take from it?
Remember death balances all human inequality.

Where it applies

  • grief processing
  • philosophical thought
  • memento mori

Putting it to work

  • accept loss
  • value life

Questions to consider

  • How does mortality shape your values?
  • Is death truly equal?

Another view

Death is often experienced as random rather than just.

More from Sir Thomas Browne

  1. Thus is man that great and true Amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live not only like other creatures in divers elements, but in divided and distinguished …

    Permalink to quote #11
  2. I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof; 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures, that in a moment can so disfigure us that our nearest…

    Permalink to quote #13
  3. Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant Religion.

    Permalink to quote #10

Related quotes

  1. Stand us against a wall and shoot us, well and good, you are victors. But why should I be brought before a Tribunal like a c-c-c-... I can't even get the word …

    Robert LeyRobert Ley quote #1
  2. The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings. There is no one, as when the first-born were slain of old…

    John BrightJohn Bright quote #1
  3. Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.

    AmbroseAmbrose quote #1