Quotes About Death

Dead men always have the last laugh. They win. They're dead. You can't hurt their feelings anymore.

Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.

The happy married man dies in good stile at home, surrounded by his weeping wife and children. The old bachelor don't die at all — he sort of rots away, like a pollywog's tail.

I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.

There is no healing a man till the law has wounded him, no making him alive till the law has slain him.

A man kills the thing he loves, and he must die a little himself.

Every man's death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love the man who stands for us.

Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.

And can a man his own quietus make with a bare bodkin?

Well, I guess I am about the livest dead man you ever saw; although I was once asked to accept a coffin.

Dead men tell no tales, Mary.

The nature of a coward is to avoid death. If such a man courts peril there can be only two reasons. Either he is not a coward at all or there is no danger.

You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can hope for.

I once saw Arnold Schwarzenegger kill a man in a movie by grabbing his head and twisting it until the neck broke. Was that difficult? Could a man do it without a lot of practice?

When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, "He is better off."

The ghost of the heart of manred Cain And the more murderous brain Of Man, still redder Nero that conceived the death Of his mother Earth, and tore Her womb, to know the place where he was conceived.

Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.

A man who can be entertaining for a full day will be in his grave by night-fall.

There was an Old Man of the East, Who gave all his children a feast; But they all ate so much, and their conduct was such, That it killed that Old Man of the East.

Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.

It is important what a man still plans at the end. It shows the measure of injustice in his death.

Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.

How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?

The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.