Quotes About Death

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death.

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

No! No! Never acknowledge the limitations of man. Smash all boundaries! Deny whatever your eyes see. Die every moment, but say: Death does not exist.'

Let us now relieve the Romans of their fears by the death of a feeble old man.

The loss of...honest and industrious men's lives cannot be valued at any price.

The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems to him a mere play.

What an illusion Mahamaya has conjured up! Here is this infinite world, and what one claims as his possession will be left behind at death. Still men cannot understand this simple truth.

Then he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh too.

The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.

Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.

The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life's purpose.

It is sometimes better to be a dead man than a live woman.

The closer I move To death, one man through his sundered hulks, The louder the sun blooms And the tusked, ramshackling sea exults.

It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.

One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.

They say that age kills the fire inside of a man, that he hears Death coming, he opens the door and says, "Come in, give me rest!" That is a pack of goddam lies.

And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?

I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.

War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been.