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Quotes About Death

What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.
~ Epicurus
Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?
~ Ernest Hemingway
A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were past.
~ Gene Wolfe
Valar Morghulis - All men must die.
~ George R. R. Martin
For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
~ George Santayana
Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves from the fear of man.
~ Lin Yutang
Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.
~ Marcus Aurelius
A man crawls into a tomb to die. A boy crawls in to live. You think that's chance?
~ Michelle Paver
Fairness, does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. ~ The blue man
~ Mitch Albom
At the door of life by the gate of breath, There are worse things waiting for men than death.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives; there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death.
~ Alveda King
The Rolling Stones suffered a great loss with the death of Ian Stewart, the man who had for so many years played piano quietly and silently with them on stage.
~ Andy Peebles
The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
~ Anne Carson
What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Brave men die a single death; cowards marry fish-head mermaids!
~ Mario
Death to a good man is his release from the imprisonment of this world, and his departure to the enjoyments of another world.
~ Matthew Henry
Why do there have to be men like that, men who enjoy another man's dying?
~ Michael Shaara
Death stamps the characters and conditions of men for eternity. - As death finds them in this world, so will they be in the next.
~ Nathanael Emmons
A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.
~ Plato
If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying?
~ Rabindranath Tagore
There is so much that is deaf and dumb in man, and so much that is paralyzed, so much that is shrunken, that nothing short of a miraculous touch of re-creation can make them at death perfect beings.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
~ Herman Melville
Man is an animal whose dreams come true and kill him.
~ James Tiptree Jr.