Quotes About Death

What I've loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You've broken it with a word, so I must die.

Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.

On the mountains of memory by the world's wellsprings, in all man's eyes, where the light of life of him is on all past things, death only dies.

Life means opportunity, and the thing men call death is the last wonderful, beautiful adventure.

Men cannot live forever But they must die forever.

An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.

I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.

When the old men fight, the young people die.

.... "death turns all men into great lovers. Would that they were equally ardent while the lady was still alive!

I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.

When a man dies, his secrets bond like crystals, like frost on a window. His last breath obscures the glass.

I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.

He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realized it might lead only to a grave.

For all men are equal at the moment of death and who are we to judge them when a much greater judge awaits?

Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.

Whoever, to whatever purpose or extent, initiates the use of force, is a killer acting on the premise of death in a manner wider than murder: the premise of destroying man's capacity to live.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.

Art is man determined to die sane.

Dead man, dead man When will you arise? Cobwebs in your mind Dust upon your eyes

He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler-and to himself-that he wasn't beaten.

Hey man, did you see that? His body hit the street with such a beautiful thud.

Man must endure his going hence.

And I was the Lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.