Quotes About Death

Alas the Master; so he sinks in death. But whoso knows the mystery of man Sees life and death as curves of the same plan

Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.

Nothing is worth anything to dead men.

A dying man can do nothing easy.

The day, man will find that he never really dies; that his Soul persists beyond death; he will have no more fear of death.

Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget.

Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience.

Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!

I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.

No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth

They are fairies; he that speaks to them shall die. I'll wink and couch; no man their works must eye.

Do all men kill the things they do not love?

A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death.

The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death.

It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.

Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts. (Ghan-buri-Ghan, of allies during war)

He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.

I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him.

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead...While you do not know life, how can you know about death

The bible fits man for life and prepares him for death

Death--some form of termination--is the universal ending of all living things; but only man, by virtue of his verbally reportable introspective life, can conceptualize his own cessation.

There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more obvious in the second case.