Quotes About Death

The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.

Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.

A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.

I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds: Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which yet they never enter, and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside.

Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost.

What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred survived to glory in their pointless death?

Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the creator was a traditional method of patent-protection.

Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness.

Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.

When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die?

I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel.

To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?

Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.

any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man

If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?

That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.

I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.