Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “An unused life is an early death.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “An unused life is an early death.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Related Quotes “A useless life is an early death.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “I’ve always felt that death is the greatest invention of life. I’m sure that life evolved without death at first and found that without death, life didn’t work very well because it didn’t make room for the young.” -Steve Jobs “I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt “If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.” -Elon Musk “Death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent, it clears out the old to make way for the new.” -Steve Jobs “The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives – the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.” -Norman Cousins “Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.” -Socrates “It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.” -Socrates