Quotes About Death

Do dead man dream? The dead themselves are silent on the matter

This is the bravo's dance, the water dance, swift and sudden. All men are made of water, do you know this? When you pierce them, the water leaks out and they die.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

Only poor men get hanged.

Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.

I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.

I went to war. .... I survived, while other men around me died. ... men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes, and thrown away by the wrong second of someone else's hate, or love, or indifference.

One man sees a riselka: his life forks there. Two men see a riselka: one of them shall die. Three men see a riselka: one is blessed, one forks, one shall die.

I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.

If a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive.

Old man! 'Tis not difficult to die.

Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save.

...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things.

Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?

Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.

There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.

The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.

When they start killing the men of ideas, you can be sure the Devil is laughing.

Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.

It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.

Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.

Each man, when he dies, sees the landscape of his own soul.