Quotes About Death

I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?

There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly.

Dead men would start and move toward me to learn of love.

It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

As long as men die, liberty will never parish.

Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.

There is absolutely no man in the whole world who can possess one among you unless he first die.

An old man dies. A young woman lives. A fair trade.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

Of men eternally dear! happy indeed If you have breathing-space From pain: blessed all the more If death should heal you of the pain you fear!

From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future.

Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.

By His Resurrection, Christ conquered sin and death, destroyed Satan's dark kingdom, freed the enslaved human race and broke the seal on the greatest mysteries of God and man.

Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best!

Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.

Man is a bird full of mud, I say aloud. And death looks on with a casual eye and scratches his anus.

The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.

The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.

Medicine is not about conquering diseases and death, but about the alleviation of suffering, minimising harm, smoothing the painful journey of man to the grave.

I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.

In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life.

Man is unique in that, unlike animals, he knows he is going to die, and unlike animals he can do something about it.

At first she was overjoyed that he would be with her, but then she recalled that human people could not live under the water, and he could only visit her father's palace as a dead man.