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Quotes About Death

Men live, and then they die. It is the quality of the process of living which matters, that and that alone.
~ Janet Morris
There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.
~ John Jewel
When a man has the rope about his neck, you don't ask him about his health!
~ Leonid Andreyev
A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.
~ Seneca the Younger
Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.
~ Seneca the Younger
Deep in the winter plain, two armies Dig their machinery, to destroy each other. Men freeze and hunger. No one is given leave On either side, except the dead, and wounded.
~ Stephen Spender
The man who lives in division is living in death. He cannot find himself because he is lost; he has ceased to be a reality. The person he believes himself to be is a bad dream.
~ Thomas Merton
Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death.
~ Walter Russell
The wicked man, when he dies, is driven to his grave, but the Christian comes to his grave.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
~ Franz Grillparzer
It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
~ George Bernard Shaw
You're mine," she whispered. "Mine, as I'm yours. And if we die, we die. All men must die, Jon Snow. But first, we'll live.
~ George R. R. Martin
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
~ Charles de Montesquieu
But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.
~ Aeschylus
When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again?
~ Aeschylus
Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills.
~ Aeschylus
When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will.
~ Aeschylus
Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.
~ Alan Bradley
There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.
~ Albert Camus
Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right.
~ Albert Camus
In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.
~ Albert Camus
How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?
~ Albert Camus