Quotes About Death

Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death.

No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.

What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.

Th' dead ar-re always pop'lar. I knowed a society wanst to vote a monyment to a man an' refuse to help his fam'ly, all in wan night.

One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

It is the lot of man but once to die.

Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.

There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power.

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

You can't murder a man who's been dead for five centuries.

And when a beest is deed, he hath no peyne; But man after his deeth moot wepe and pleyne.

I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.

You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.

The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.

Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead: And in whatever state a man be thrown, 'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.

It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.

Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.

Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death. [Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.]

No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there. [No churchyard is so handsome that a man would desire straight to be buried there.]

Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.

Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.

The sun will soon be setting, and corpses make poor company by night. These were dark and dangerous men, alive. I doubt that death will have improved them.

Wizards die the same as other men, once you cut their heads off.

They say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man's laughter freezes in his throat and chokes him to death," Ned said evenly. "Perhaps that is why the Starks have so little humor.