Quotes About Death

Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows When, after death, man's honor is his guard. So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie, Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive.

Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are paid.

Now if you'll excuse me, Death waits for no man. Except me.

I'd like to explain why you fine young men had to be blown apart to defend this mud hole.

It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.

It is for all Men that come into the World once to Die, and after Death the Judgment; and since Death is a Debt that all of us must pay, it is but a matter of small moment what way it be done.

The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial man. We denied a future to our sucessor beings.

But if there be an hereafter,And that there is, conscience, uninfluenc'dAnd suffer'd to speak out, tells every man,Then must it be an awful thing to die;More horrid yet to die by one's own hand.

What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.

It is an ill thing to meet a man you thought dead in the woodland at dusk.

Kaisers and Czars will strut the stage Once more with pomp and greed and rage; Courtly ministers will stop At home and fight to the last drop; By the million men will die In some new horrible agony.

Seldom comes Glory till a man be dead.

All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread.

Remember the coffin where men All must to dust be returning.

Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.

Some folks think that Christianity means a kind of insurance policy, and that it has little to do with this life, but that it is a very good thing when a man dies.

It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.

I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.

Of old when folk lay sick and sorely tried The doctors gave them physic, and they died. But here's a happier age: for now we know Both how to make men sick and keep them so.

The lot of man-to suffer and die.

I have no interest at all in food and drink, but only in slaughter and blood and the agonized groans of mangled men

When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.