Quotes About Death

Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Life flows on over death as water closes over a stone dropped into a pool. ... Fate is certain; death is certain; but the courage and nobility of men and women matter more than these.

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.

Men die and they are not happy.

No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others

To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.

Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death.

And upsidedown in the earth a dead man walks upon my soles when I walk.

The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died. We drove to Memphis, the sky was hard and black.

On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

Ill never forget Hurricane Katrina - the mix of a natural and a man-made catastrophe that resulted in the death of over 1,500 of our neighbors. Millions of folks were marked by the tragedy.

Since the Creator had made the facts of the after-life inaccessible to man, He must not have required that man understand death in order to live fruitfully.

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

Euripides says,-Who knows but that this life is really death,And whether death is not what men call life?

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

A Toad, can die of Light - Death is the Common Right Of Toads and Men

In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow.

If men must die, why not in honorable pursuit of knowledge? Far be it that our ideas of manhood should be dwarfed to the size of a golden dollar.