Quotes about Death
What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?
- Mahatma Gandhi
The man who lives in division is living in death. He cannot find himself because he is lost; he has ceased to be a reality. The person he believes himself to be is a bad dream.
- Thomas Merton
The wicked man, when he dies, is driven to his grave, but the Christian comes to his grave.
- Charles Spurgeon
Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.
- Elbert Hubbard
It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
- George Bernard Shaw
Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.
- Anne Lamott
And I was the Lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.
- CS Lewis
Every man's death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love the man who stands for us.
- Cormac McCarthy
Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
- DH Lawrence
No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.
- Ernest Hemingway
What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.
- Euripides