Quotes About Death

Brave men die in battle.

Many massacres have happened when people yell "surprise"! Pearl Harbor. The Tet Offensive. My uncle's 50th birthday party. I was there, man! How many more people gotta die?

The anguish of death hangs over and leads the human spirit to wonder about the mysteries of existence, man's destiny, life, the world.

Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

A real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.

I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?

I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.

Men set themselves a goal, and having attained it, are satisfied and grow paunches. In their complacency they forget that their only future is now death.

A man was found dead covered in sprinkles, strawberry sauce and a flake. Reports said he may have topped himself.

I saw a great many men die afterwards, some suffering horribly, but I do not recall any death that affected me quite so much as that of this first victim in my platoon.

God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

Bushido is in being crazy to die. Fifty or more could not kill one such a man.

The man who wishes to understand himself thoroughly must with his unrest, uncertainty, and even his weakness and sinfulness, with his life and death, draw near to Christ.

Nobody knows what death is, nor whether to man it is perchance the greatest of blessings, yet people fear it as if they surely knew it to be the worse of evils.

Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.

Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing?

A man can die but once.

Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.

I think we are in rats' alley Where the dead men lost their bones.

What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.