Quotes about Death
Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.
— Laurence Sterne
Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.
— Cicero
I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.
— Victor Hugo
Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?
— Confucius
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