Quotes About Death

To wash and dress a corpse is a far different thing from making it alive: Man can do the one--God alone can do the other.

Six feet of dirt make all men equal.

Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have all died of gout.

No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive.

Kill one man, and you are murderer.

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.

To die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I was a man'.

Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold.

Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.

But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.

The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?

When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.

Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face.

Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.

O cease! must hate and death return, Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men.

Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him. When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.

If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.